The Bible doesn't sugarcoat the truth. From David and Bathsheba to the tragic story of Amnon and Tamar, we see a recurring theme: Adultery always causes something to die. 🥀
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William Attersoll, English Puritan, writes on the distinctives of Christianity, such as charity. He laments a lack of mercy and compassion towards the poor, for their maintenance. Not even in famine, scarcity, sickness, and “mortalities.”
Do some of these categories make us less willing to give? Do we bristle at “maintenance”?
How can you be given to mercy and compassion, and consider ways to get “we” involved?
John Cunningham Geikie, Anglican dean, contrasts Christianity with religions of antiquity. No religious concept united all humans, nor fought all evil. No aristocrat would stoop to a religion puttting them in common with the barbarians they were reluctant to call human.
Do people still see Christianity this way today? Attacking all forms of evil, uniting barbarians and aristocrats?
How can you unite with everything purely human?
Where Bread Is Found
Greg Johnson