When the twin towers collapsed in New York due to jets intrusion, the Christian world took a hit up the side of the head that we surely needed. The attack awakened us to two things; (1) our foolishness as well as (2) refining our core beliefs. In a sense, we were purified by the fire and bellowing smoke of death and ruin.
(1) Christianity had developed a combative personality toward other brands as well as severe inner tensions within any brand's developed system. The Muslim attack caused me necessary pause.
Do I really want to argue that women can pass communion trays side to side while seated but cannot pass them back and forth while standing? That only men can pass those trays because we got that from the Bible?
Do I really want to engage in dialogs which debate for the old Church of Christ patterns that were not in the Bible in the first place; i.e., one song leader...songs out of a book...three times a week assemblies...only the men pray....etc.
(2) Jesus is desperately needed. We have been shocked into service that matters rather than arguing about what can and can't be involved in "the worship service". We have become hungrier for his talent, his skill, his eye, and his walk. We have appropriately become less argumentative and more compassionate for the handwriting is on the wall; this world isn't where our treasure is buried.
We have more properly developed a yearn to be more like the Christ of the church rather than defending the way of the Church of Christ.
Hope is our theme. Defying death is our certainty. Robust attention to the things that matter because we live in Him instead of theory's big talk in an auditorium class is becoming more prominent.
We have been advantaged. The Muslim attack was more than crumbling of concrete and tangling of cable. The crash was to announce an intended take-over. Thank you. We will focus our hearts and minds on the Jesus kind of things. We will do a better job of helping our people hide in the Jesus-cave. We will not be taken.
When the towers went down our faith went up. We believe bigger and stronger in the One True God because we have been advantaged by the Muslim terrorists.
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