Have we become so politically correct and timid that we fail to share the Gospel in our daily conversations? Are we so addicted to more palatable and acceptable terms of endearment that we cannot call "an affair" what it is: adultery, fornication, uh...sin? Are we then so entrenched in world opinion we cannot offer more than a re-hab center to help a burdened, broken soul? Are we so threatened by establishment that we cannot mention Jesus Christ and Christianity?
Must we cover our ears, eyes and mouths in cloaks of tolerance to accomodate views that sin is not sin without offering any solutions or hope?
Thank God for people like Britt Hume, Fox News commentator and contributor, who humbly, candidly, and succinctly shared his faith as the help someone needs. Thank God again, that writers such as Ross Douthat of the New York Times, and Chip Wood of Personal Liberty Digest keep the conversation going in a public arena most of us rarely get to sit in, much less perform. Yeah, it's comforting to see God using man's technology and soap boxes to get out the message of salvation, reconciliation, and grace beyond the walls that hold pews and pulpits.
An excerpt below, from Chip Wood's piece today, may be "a bit too Christian" for naysaying elitists to swallow. But I am grateful that people like him are spotlighting Christianity as a bonafide and worthy topic to dialogue in public places without calling it bigotry. See for yourself:
"To my surprise, I found one of the most reasonable comments about the whole affair in a column in The New York Times, when Ross Douthat wrote, 'This doesn’t mean that we need to welcome real bigotry into our public discourse. But what Hume said wasn’t bigoted: Indeed, his claim about the difference between Buddhism and Christianity was perfectly defensible. Christians believe in a personal God who forgives sin. Buddhists, as a rule, do not. And it’s at least plausible that Tiger Woods might welcome the possibility that there’s someone out there capable of forgiving him, even if Elin Nordegren and his corporate sponsors do not.'
Yes, as many observers have noted, Christianity is the best deal in the universe. There is no other faith of which I’m aware that promises your sins will be forgiven.
Of course to the intellectual elite, there is no such thing as “sin.” We are supposed to tolerate anything and everything, from serial infidelities to the most blatant perversions.
In the land of the free and the home of the brave, no one can be persecuted for his or her beliefs anymore. Unless, of course, they are so old-fashioned and intolerant as to believe that sin exists… that sinners will be punished… and that redemption can only be found at the foot of the Cross.
Brit, I’m sure glad you no longer get your paycheck from one of our so-called “fair-minded” networks. Because if you did, I have no doubt they’d require you to grovel an abject apology—right before they threw you out the door.
Until next time, keep some powder dry. —Chip Wood"
