Scatter-shooting

I have a serious problem with people who condemn homosexuality but see nothing wrong with a man being a serial molester.

I believe that giving someone the cold shoulder is no different from someone having an outburst of anger.

I really have not followed college football very much (there have been a few exceptions) since the day that the Southwest Conference broke up.

I love music, especially those songs that are honest about life.

I admire those people who can look down into the abyss and examine what is there and what it is like and can come back and tell about it.

The Dallas Stars are now my favorite pro team.

Even though I will vote, my hope for this country rests entirely upon people learning to live loved and from this will be able to love others.

A true leader never has to make a willful effort to lead, but will make an effort to serve and enable others.

I believe that the bailout as well as Obamacare both provide for the wealthy at the expense of both the lower and middle classes.

What love do part 2

Do people who have never been under the religious laws of the Bible need to be put under those laws? If they are not placed under those laws how can anything but lawlessness abound?  These are 2 questions  that come from many church leaders today.  My answer to both questions is no and here is a brief look at why I say that.

This has always been an issue from the very earliest days of the church.  When Paul was writing to a group of Christians in Rome (most of whom he did not know), he wrote this:  NLT© 2:14 Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it.  2:15 They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right.

Now Gentiles just means anyone who is not a Jew.  So, Paul is really saying here that people who have never been subject to or have even heard these religious laws started doing them instinctively.  If they had never heard of these laws, what caused them to start doing them?  This is what "living loved and loving others" causes one to do.  Love is the fulfillment of the religious laws.  These laws just show what the byproduct of love really is.  

Love was written on their hearts and so they started doing rightly.  Love will guide, accuse and confirm their actions within the heart.  So I believe that when people start behaving badly towards another, they are just really showing that they do not love those people.

If bad actions show that love is misplaced, then why do we focus on coercing laws upon them instead of guiding them towards love?

What love do

There is a story in the Bible that tells of a time when people living under Roman rule and social beliefs [Which are very similar to the way Western Society (including the USA) lives today].  They also lived under the religious rule and commands that are very similar to what the religious right tries to force everyone to live by today.  This passage speaks to me because it shows the spontaneous response of people living in these conditions to "living loved and then being able to love others".

Here is the story from the NET Bible (emphasis mine):  Acts 2:42 They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship,  to the breaking of breadand to prayer.  2:43 Reverential awe  came over everyone,  and many wonders and miraculous signs  came about by the apostles. 2:44 All who believed were together and held  everything in common,2:45 and they began selling   their property  and possessions and distributing the proceeds  to everyone, as anyone had need. 2:46 Every day  they continued to gather together by common consent inthe temple courts, breaking bread from   house to house, sharing their food with glad   and humblehearts,  2:47 praising God and having the good will  of all the people. And the Lord was adding totheir number every day   those who were being saved.




Verses 44 and 45 speaks volumes to me about how love reacts to those arounds us.  Now before I go any further, let me say that I do not believe this to be socialism or at least how I've seen socialism played out in society.  Socialism has always been forced upon people and this is a spontaneous outbreak that is not forced.  


As I read this, I see a people who did not demand Government to take care of them, nor did they seek to form Non profit organizations to oversee who would get help and who would not.  This was a case of those who had stuff exchanging it for money so that anyone and everyone who had a need had that need met.


Also, they loved being together and not in the traditional religious settings, but house to house and eating and sharing time as well as their lives with each other.


It seems to me that in a world of good, better, & best; this is the ultimate way for people to live and it is simply the by product of living loved and loving others.