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Layman's charge that the General Assembly was "apostate"
[7-16-01]
We received this e-mail note recently from a
visitor to this web site. We share it here with his
permission.
Dear fellow believers,
If you have seen the latest issue of the Layman's
recent editorial calling the recent General Assembly
"apostate," it would seem that they have done nothing less
than to declare war of division. Their charge of an "Apostate
Assembly" is particularly insidious. It becomes clearer to me every
day that the real agenda of those powerful people that are pushing the
"Confessing Church" movement is a schism of our church.
Sadly, very few understand what a horrid and bloody
battle such a schism would involve. If we take a watermelon as an image
of the PC(USA), most picture schism as a neat surgical dividing of
intact parts. A more realistic image would be to imagine a huge wooden
sledge hammer smashing it into thousands of pieces that are then swept
into separate piles.
Pray that the Layman and their angry friends
do not gain the upper hand. Remember what is written in the Bible (RSV),
Luke 10:26-27:
He said to him, "What is written in the law?
How do you read?" And he answered, "You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all
your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as
yourself."
Where in this greatest Commandment does Jesus give us
permission to hate, to destroy, to exclude anyone? My understanding says
we must love our neighbor. In the Parable of the Good Samaritan the
common understanding is that Jesus defines the outcast, the unclean one,
the Samaritan as the neighbor. I put forth that the robbers, the priest,
the Levite , the Samaritan, the guy left to die, and the innkeeper are
our neighbors.
Jesus is reaching out to all of us. We just have to
find a way to love each other!
Sincerely,
Joe K Sayre
Aztec NM
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