Culturally sensitive...or downright trivial.
Alright, folks. Help me out here...is this...like...OK? Or are we trivializing something not to be trivialized? Is there a step when we cross over the line? Tell me.
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posted by Matt Friedeman @ 11:39 AM
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Trivialization? Possibly. Where's the line that we don't cross when explaining the mystery of the ages? What "langauge" is too coarse, too common? What comes to mind are the many "The-kingdom-is-like"s of Jesus: a mustard seed, yeast in dough, seed cast on the ground. Jesus probably faced the trivialization charge in his day also. The message of the cross is, though a mystery, quite simple, and unfortunately sometimes obfuscated by we religious folk. Let's use what language we can - even if we border on trivial - but let's also call people into the depths of the mysteries of God, which transcends even our most clever analogies.
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