G. K. Chesterton’s definition of bigotry is the best I’ve seen.
“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”
I believe this to be the single greatest disease in our churches today. Our inability to imagine that there is even the slightest chance that we may not be 100% right causes narrow-mindedness that results in broken relationships and countless lost opportunties to learn and grow.
I love Chesterton, absolutely love his work. But there is this nagging question of anti-Semitism…. This quote is interesting in light of the accusations against him.
The problem with church (little c) is that they are run by humans; and humans by definition of our falleness, are feeckle, prideful argumentative people. People in need of Grace and a mercy..
people must be looked at in the shadow of the cross, because it it that shadow that give no man a bar to raise but makes him equal with others
a work in progress,
Nathanael
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