Dude, blogging is like so 2002!

Hello all,

Well to all you v-tas people, this is my blog. It's not going to be an online diary (or the more manly 'journal'), but more of a way for me to share my thoughts about different issues, current events, or what not.

Right now (well, not right; right now I'm typing) I'm reading a book called Repenting of Religion by Greg Boyd. It's mainly about how Christians have fallen into the trap of judgement, instead of love. In doing so, we set ourselves up as God. I think he makes very salient points, and can't say I've disagreed with him so far. People always say "love the sinner, hate the sin", but too often we do end up hating the sinner. Really, I mean would a homosexual person be comfortable in most churches? At a Christian event of any type? I would be surprised if he or she were. But, check out Romans 2:1-4.

1You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at
whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who
pass judgment do the same things.
2Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.
3So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on
them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment?
4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience,
not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?.

It seems pretty clear that we're not the ones who are supposed to pointing how wrong people are. Now if there's someone who you love that's doing something destructive, we should tell them in love that we're concerned for them, but I don't think that love is the motivation for a lot of the "culture war" stuff you see in the news. Anyway, my goal is not to preach, but to get us to think about how we are presenting the love of God to the world.