We Must Go Out Into A Desert

The Confessing Church Of American Ragamuffins Needs To Join Magdalene And Peter In Witnessing That Christianity Is Not Primarily A Moral Code But A Grace-laden Mystery; It Is Not Essentially A Philosophy Of Love But A Love Affair; It Is Not Keeping Rules With Clenched Fists But Receiving A Gift With Open Hands.

Justification By Grace Through Faith' Is The Theologian's Learned Phrase For What Chesterton Once Called 'the Furious Love Of G-d.' He Is Not Moody Or Capricious; He Knows No Seasons Of Change. He Has A Single Relentless Stance Toward Us: He Loves Us. He Is The Only G-d Man Has Ever Heard Of Who Loves Sinners. False Gods- The Gods Of Human Manufacturing- Despise Sinners, But The Father Of (yeshua) Loves All, No Matter What They Do.

When Absolute Control And Rigid Obedience Pose As Love Within The Family And The Local Faith-community , We Produce Trained Cowards Rather Than Christian Persons.

To Affirm A Person Is To See The Good In Them That They Cannot See In Themselves And To Repeat It In Spite Of Appearances To The Contrary. Please, This Is Not Some Pollyanna Optimism That Is Blind To The Reality Of Evil, But Rather Like A Fine Radar System That Is Tuned In To The True, The Good, And The Beautiful.

The Trouble With Our Ideals Is That If We Live Up To All Of Them, We Become Impossible To Live With.