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Dietrich Bonhoeffer composed a number of talking points to refute what was known as the “Aryan Paragraph” in September of 1933. The paragraph excluded non-Aryans from civil service which was beginning to be adopted by German churches.
Currently reading: The Bonhoeffer Reader by Michael P. DeJonge 📚
![The German Christians say: The church is not allowed to undo or to disregard God’s orders, and race is one of them, so the church must be racially constituted. We answer: The given order of race is misjudged just as little as that of gender, status in society, etc. . . . In the church, a Jew is still a Jew, a Gentile a Gentile, a man a man, a capitalist a capitalist, etc., etc. But God calls and gathers them all together into one people, the people of God, the church, and they all belong to it in the same way, one with another. The church is not a community of people who are all the same but precisely one of people foreign to one another who are called by God’s Word. The people of God is an order over and above all other orders. “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? . . . whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother” [Matt. 12:48, 50]. Race and blood are one order among those who enter into the church, but it must never become a criterion for belonging to the church; the only criterion is the Word of God and faith.
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How do you know who someone is? I don’t mean who they say they are, but who they really are? How do you determine it?
I think we do so by watching the way a person acts. As my friend, Todd, likes to say, “acta non verba (actions not words).”
Read the rest: Jesus in Conversation - The Two Disciples
Hey @Mtt, werid thing happening on danielmrose.com, if I try to customize Sumo or Bayou, they only show one item in a category. I’m quite confident it is user error. But, I can’t quite seem to figure out what I’m doing wrong.
Join us for an intentional conversation about, “forgiveness,” at the Tap Room in Ypsilanti, MI.
Is forgiveness necessary for us to thrive? Are there people that unforgiveable? Is there good in carrying grudges?
We will start with these questions and see where the conversation takes us!
There are four rules…
- Everyone respects one another.
- Everyone talks.
- There has to be a moderator.
- We end at 9 pm.
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The #OldGal also scored a 4 today. Perhaps a #YoungPup will post a 3!
If you pray for God to protect the persecuted Church and rejoice at the federal government shutting down refugee resettlement, then I would encourage you to ask yourself if you truly care for the persecuted church.
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The #OldGal scores a 3 today and I am just happy to keep my streak. The time spent with her grandson is beginning to recharge her! We are in trouble #YoungPups.
The Detroit Tigers report on 2/14.
The Saginaw Valley State University Cardinals start their baseball season on 2/14.
2/14 is the official beginning of Spring.
I will die on this hill.
This is such a timely read. Bonhoeffer’s writing is so highly applicable to our times.
Currently reading: The Bonhoeffer Reader by Michael P. DeJonge 📚
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The #OldGal also scored a 3 today. The time with the grandson is beginning to pay dividends.
Do you need a glimmer of hope?
MLB Pitchers and catchers report in 8 days.
College baseball returns for the Rose family on February 14.
Spring and Joy are around the corner.
We now live in a country where Christian churches are being counseled not to publicize their gathering due to the threat of federal agents arresting congregants.
No, the atheists didn’t do this.No, the Muslims didn’t do this.
The Christian Nationalists did this.
This is a nice write up about our son, Ethan, and his moot court team.
I changed my website theme to @Mtt’s Sumo Theme. I think it looks really clean and it is really fast.
It seems to me that many of us do not understand the difference between peacemaker and peacekeeper. For the follower of Jesus, we are called to the former not the latter.
This will demand from us an engagement on conflict as we necessarily stand in the tension between two opposing sides.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” - Matthew 5:43-48
Wednesday night on Fox News, Vice President JD Vance said that there is an “old-school, very Christian concept.”
“You love your family, then you love your neighbor, then you love your community, then you love you fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.”
This is, indeed, not a Christian concept. The Christian principle as laid out in Matthew 5:43-48 is very clear that the way of Christ is marked by loving enemy as neighbor. There is no hierarchy in the way of Christian love.
In Paul’s writing and in James’ writing there are sharp rebukes for followers of Christ who give preferential treatment.
What Vice President Vance is doing here is creating an axiom that is not reflected in the Scripture or in the way of Christ. Similarly to other axioms that are popular, like, “God helps those who help themselves,” or “God will never give you more than you can handle.” All of us are given to creating axioms like this in an effort to simplify or make things a bit easier to wrap our minds around. I am confident that I do it as well.
We are indeed to love our family, we are indeed to love our neighbor, our community, and beyond but nowhere in Scripture is that love rooted in any kind of favoritism or hierarchy.
The radical nature of the way of Christ is to love those who are different from ourselves as ourselves.
In Mark 12 Jesus in response to the question, “What is the greatest commandment?” says this,
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
Loving our neighbor as ourselves is the basic minimum standard in the way of Christ.
I think this is why GK Chesterton’s quote resonates so deeply with me, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.”
To create a hierarchy of the way we love is easier. It is easier to say, “At least I loved my family.” But, this is not the way of Christ.
The way of Christ is to love enemies.
It is an all encompassing love.
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The #OldGal popped a 4 too. Hopefully, there is a #YoungPup 3 out there.
From my essay today…
If Jesus is placed in proximity to humanity by “dwelling among us”, he is placed in an even deeper way with us by taking on flesh itself. He has become one of us.
You can read the whole thing here: Jesus in Conversation Introduction ✍️
It’s really fun when you have conversations that matter. Today was a day of those kinds of conversations.