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Post by StationAdministration on Apr 11, 2006 6:42:25 GMT
I got to reading "Brian McLaren again last night. I reread the section where he discusses the scandals in the Roman Catholic Church. Brian believes that there are things that all Christians can find of benefit in Catholicism as well as other streams of Christianity. He doesn't endorse catholicism so much as recognize what is of God in it.
" But I am also not insensitive to the fact the Protestants and Orthodox churches have their own closets full of skeletons; they just haven't been caught. Being caught is expensive. It's painful. But it also opens the possibility for repentance . . .I don't consider the Catholic scandals to be 'their" problem but "our" problem. If the Catholic Church responds to its scandals with appropriate humility and repentance, the whole world will benefit.
A generous orthodoxy is like that. It acknowledges that we're all a mess. It sees in our worst failures the possibility of our deepest repentance and God's opening for our most profound healing. It remembers Jesus' parable that wherever God sows good seed, an "enemy" will sow weed seeds. It realizes that you can't pull up the bad without uprooting the good too, and so it refrains from judging. It just rejoices wherever good seed grows. "
A Generous Orthodoxy (Grand Rapids, 2004) p. 230.
As a Christian, Every Nation is still my problem two years after leaving. Why? It is part of the church. So what to do? Should we be silent about the scandals, the lies and abuses? No. Should we stand back and say and do nothing. I'm not so sure.
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Post by helpfulcommentary on Apr 21, 2006 3:49:56 GMT
McLaren is wise when he talks about uprooting the two... Look at the history of revolutions.. they often bring in a system worse than the one that was oppressing them in the first place.
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