Comments on: Divisive Men

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hmmm. Wonder what inspired this?

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hmmmm… Well, perhaps I have some idea what inspired this particular post, but so what. It seems to me that we (as brothers in the fellowship of Blood) are oft times quick to draw lines. What is Jesus (through Paul) saying when He says, judge not thing before it’s time? What is that ‘time’? When I discern that my thoughts, constructs, conceptual understanding, theological concepts are being distained—it that the ‘time’? How about when my self percieved kindness, mercy and love is met with a sneer and a slap across my intellect and feelings—is that the ‘time’? How do we love someone, (really love them), when they’re hurting so bad that all they can do is lash out at the nearest brother? If love is a sock, in the shoe of life, how many pebbles of piety are acceptable before we throw that sock away? I think, but then who am I to even presume to be able to think; nevertheless, I think these are all valid questions. Here is what I think of love:

I think love is dirty and bloody. Love bleeds, and takes the blows smashed against it without pious response. The hand that smashes HARD and violently against love recieves a soft and gentle touch back. Not once, not twice, not fifty times; but rahter forever. Love doesn’t reject, but covers and heals. Love is like the wine and oil, to heal the wounded heart. Go out back of your house and put a little gash in your arm—bleed freely and don’t wrap it with a bandage. Then come back in 3-4 hours and pour a little wine in the cut. OUCH!!!! That’s what the hurt heart does when love is poured in—OUCH! Then the heart lashes out; don’t run away, keep loving!

Love is stronger than anger, stonger than rejection, stonger than bitterness, stonger than sin. Why does God say this about love:
Song 8.6,7 ???????????????????? Sit down the stones and go hug a whore!

By: Robert Williams

Robert Williams — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, this was more the occasion than the inspiration for it.

We know Biblically how we ought to deal with divisive, nasty, heretical, or unrepentant folks in the local church. There are precedents for it, we know the procedures, there’s clear authority, and we know what it looks like.

We also know that, in traditional public forums, there are rules about how we behave. Things we do and don’t say, and ways we do and don’t say things.

But once you go online, the situation changes so much that it’s not always clear how the Biblical rules ought to apply. We aren’t within the context of a local church. Most of us don’t know each other. Many of us are anonymous. Blog entries and comments stay around forever.

I wish someone who is a better Christian and better blogger than I am would come up with some kind of “code of conduct” on how Biblical rules regarding Christian interaction ought to apply online. Replete with some little graphic button that says “I subscribe to the Christian blogger code of conduct”.

Maybe something like that already exists. If so, I haven’t seen it. I think it would be useful. We wouldn’t treat each other in real life the way we treat each other online.

By: Karl Thienes

Karl Thienes — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Adams posted something like this last year:

http://www.themasterspen.com/archives/000318.html

By: salguod.net

salguod.net — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Divisive Men

Dead Man Blogging has a post wondering how we can mange to get along as Christians in the online world. He wonders how Romans 16:17-18, 1 Timothy 1:3-7, 2 Thessalonians 3:6, Titus 3:10-11 and Matthew 18:15-17 apply to those of…