We spend quite a bit of time worrying about, debating, arguing, fighting about who is right and who is wrong. We do this in politics. We do this in religion. All of it bleeds into our jobs, our marriages, our lives.
Who is right? Who has the most intelligence? Who displays the most common sense? Who should we follow?
At least some of the bigger problems of his country lie in the fact we've become quit incapable of working together on our bigger problems. There is no centrist thought or action any longer. Whether it is Democrat vs. Republican, liberal vs. conservative, black vs. white, Catholic vs. Protestant, Falcons vs. Saints, (okay, I threw that last one in), we can't get along enough to make a difference.
Compromise, which is something our president swore would make a difference in his capability to govern, is now a bad thing. What's next, then?
Mark's Gospel tells us this tale: 38John spoke up, "Teacher, we saw a man using your name to expel demons and we stopped him because he wasn't in our group." 39-41Jesus wasn't pleased. "Don't stop him. No one can use my name to do something good and powerful, and in the next breath cut me down. If he's not an enemy, he's an ally."
Stop. Think. Listen.
"If he's not an enemy, he's an ally."
Where's the common ground? Where's the possibility of making a difference? Where's the next good move?
If we don't learn to use the name of Jesus to do something good and powerful, don't use the idea that we are incapable of doing ANYTHING without him but capable of doing EVERYTHING with him, we're going to fail. Miserably. Completely. Without doubt.
There is no such thing as the religious right. There is only Jesus. There is no such thing as the liberal wrong. Only Jesus.
Allies? Remember when that was a good thing?
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