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[lambethconference.nt] 31 Mar 2008--THOSE WHO DENY THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, OR WHO DESIRE TO CHANGE ANCIENT BOUNDARIES, RISK THE FUTURE OF SOCIETY, THROWING IT UP INTO THE AIR AND WATCHING WITH BAITED BREATH AS IT COMES CRASHING DOWN TO EARTH. THEY THINK THAT A PARACHUTE MAY APPEAR AND, IF NOT, THAT THE LANDING WILL BE SPECTACULAR. THE OBSERVING THEIST IS LEFT TO PRAY THAT GOD HAS ADEQUATELY PLANNED FOR THIS JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.
Martin Luther said,
“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. To be steady on all fronts besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point”
A break between thought and action, or lack of appropriate engagement with reality, is one of the ways that schizophrenia has been described. Some of us, even some of our leaders, exhibit questionable symptoms and appear somewhat disconnected from God, His people and the world. We function in our own virtual worlds, even use our own unintelligible language, and we deny the reality that both our global society and the ecclesial family have grown far beyond the boundaries outlined during the Reformation.
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