Alrighty Then – Part 2
Following on from part 1, let’s look further at how our addiction to being right affects our life and how we live it. How then, are we supposed to worship? What becomes even more troubling than ordinary folks contesting positions on certain social justice and political issues, is when Christians enter into similar arguments concerning how different Christian groups and denominations express their faith in worship. I find it sad and disturbing when I read one Christian group criticising or even denouncing another Christian group for something in the way they operate. I’ve heard criticisms that come from a place of superiority, that other Christian groups are not as enlightened or advanced in the way they understand God or how they should worship. I’ve heard...
Alrighty Then – Part 1
I like to be right. In fact it would be fair to say, I’m obsessed with being right. I certainly don’t like to be wrong, and just quietly, I have worked hard to make sure I don’t find myself in that place where I might appear to be without all the answers. And that is all well and good until some bright spark pops up with a truly deep and disturbing question, the answer to which I have not a clue. Are you like that? When I do come to the awareness that I might be wrong, apart from feeling vastly uncomfortable, I like to be the one who comes up with the apology, as if it was my idea in the first place. I really dislike finding myself in a place where someone is taking the opportunity to let me know I am wrong, how I am wrong, and what I should do to fix it. This is...
