Hmmm, just curious as to the sudden drop off in comments with the social justice and evangelism focus over the last week. I can see people are still reading. Does this mean I'm being too controversial or not controversial enough? Do I take it as agreement, indifference, bamboozlement or overload?
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I’ve noticed similar things when I’ve posted on social justice issues (back when I was actually writing stuff…. been a long time between posts). I reckon it can be harder to interact with the ideas: partly because they’re often things that are a bit obvious. So they are worth reading, and cause you to think, but it’s harder to disagree because the post more just functions as a “you should be getting out there and doing this stuff” type of thing.
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I don’t know about everyone else but I’ve just been busy.
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Yeah, I expect there’s a large element of either preaching to the converted or falling on the deaf ears of the proudly unconverted.
I had hoped the revival leader quotes would generate more interest though. Oh well, such is life.
Maybe the question for us all to ask ourselves then is, what is the unexplored territory here? What questions might open up more conversation space?
I know the issue of gun control, social justice and personal protection generally gets things going but that debate too easily polarizes down nationality lines, between countries who have gun ownership as part of their culture and countries that don’t. So in a way its no different.
I suppose why I was drawn to the leaders mentioned in the previous posts is that they fall outside of my own spiritual history. I have never heard Billy Graham, I have never read Finney, nor do I feel particularly drawn to them. But I can respect how, in their own way, they have strived for a more holistic gospel. That we are not the first to seek this.
And I wonder what perspective they might bring to the conversation. So i suppose the question is, are there issues they got which we still haven’t grasped? And if we do know it all, why don’t we see more of it? Could it be the big problem is we don’t know what we don’t know?LikeLike
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I’ve been reading up on the reformation for an assignment this week and found it interesting that the motivation at least partially was to do with social justice issues: e.g. the reformers objected to how the laity were excluded from worship. However it seems that the reforms including even Vatican II have been focussed on getting the books and theology stuff sorted out: i.e. the ‘pastoral’ aspect whilst talked about and theorised on keeps getting lost in practice.
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i’ve been busy, plus agreement for the most part.
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With so many posts about Social Justice, you can’t real add anything new and innovative to the discussion, else you would be repeating yourself. Saying the same things over and over again kind of thing.
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I notice the same thing on my blog. Unless I mention something vaguely anti-american (i.e. I’m against the war or for helping poor people) and therefore controversial, the social justice posts get hardly any comments. no matter how diverse or varied on issues, those posts just don’t spark any response. I find it an interesting trend.
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“Could it be the big problem is we don’t know what we don’t know?”
Bingo.
Actually, I would say that THE problem is that we tend to not do what we already know: love God and love others.
The power of being FOR rather than being AGAINST is not often enough wielded, IMO….
We’ve been having a good discussion over the past few threads over at Kingdom Grace and Calacirian that resonate with this.LikeLike
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