Thursday, May 8

EVANGELICALS URGE SOME TO CHILL-OUT
"Evangelical leaders meeting here today denounced as 'dangerous' and 'unhelpful' the anti-Islam remarks made in the last year by leaders in their own movement and proposed new guidelines for churches to follow in relating to Muslims..." Link to NY Times article

Link to NAE

In Matthew 10:16 Jesus says "Stay alert. This is hazardous work I'm assigning you. You're going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack, so don't call attention to yourselves. Be as cunning as a snake, inoffensive as a dove." (MsgB)

Proverbs 29:9 says -- "If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet." (ESV)

IOW, there are times when wisdom dictates that it is best to not go shooting your mouth off -- regardless of the validity of what you're saying. There are times and situations when you get a lot more done for the kingdom of God when you're running in stealth mode -- or at least when you're a little more low key. For example, Jesus never preached against the evils of the Roman empire. However, what he did say was a subversive time bomb that eventually brought the empire down.

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