listening in

Maybe you noticed my silence of late in the blogging department.  I was listening in to the conversation prompted by the previous post, between Brenda, Archie, Billabong, Trenton, Metler and others.   People want to talk to each other about these things don’t they? They want to convince each other, poke, and prod, question and offer themselves in response to each other.  At stake in the conversation were questions of who gets to lead and why, who’s in and who’s out, what the gospel is and isn’t, and how we are to understand and engage the Bible.  Since the Bible touches on all the Big Questions–life and death and immortality among others–there is plenty to get worked up over in a conversation like this.  So now I want to ask, what would please Jesus in these matters?
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