all on toasted bread with tomato slice, lettuce, and white cheese

My wife would talk to him on the phone and say, “Sure he doesn’t know me, but I no longer know my Daddy either.” He was a good man and father to his 4 kids and grandfather to 6, great grandfather to 2.

Yeah, one nickel or dime at a time. All the way to poverty of the mind and identity. That sums it up well.

“Idi Amin and the Shah
And al-Fatah are quite bizarre;
I never could get the hang
Of I-de-o-lo-gy
I do the Rock…”
– Tim Curry

Ouch!

This is a big struggle for me personally. I struggle when pharisaical Christians judge others so harshly and spend all this time infighting when, if the energy were funnelled into meeting the needs of those around us, the Ark might actually begin to fill up! As it is, churches are floundering, dying, due to everyone putting “me” first.

I’m just sick.

My small group/class (about 15 to 20 families) in our last church decided to have this topic as a multi-week lesson/discussion. We had 4 to 6 visitors from the YEC side every week. And things grew tense. To be blunt the YEC said basically you can’t trust science and science is just wrong on everything about OE. And things totally broke down when most of the OE side basically said you likely aren’t save if you don’t agree with YEC.

“pre-millenialism is a bigger issue”

On another occasion we did an overview of this. And much of the material started relating millennial positions to the OE/YE debates!

To sum it up. Many of our seminary teachers and teachers at places like Liberty tie all of this together. And if you don’t agree with the entire package you’re likely not a “real” Christian.

Makes it hard to find common ground. Or even a civil discussion at times.

And while your at it add some chopped almonds to that tuna salad.

Dana