Charles Bridges, Anglican preacher, led the Evangelical party. The rich laugh at God’s threats against the robbers of the poor (Prov 22:22-23). He says these warnings will soon enough become awful realities.
Would today’s “evangelical party” instead warn those who admonish robbers of the poor?
William Luther Gaylord, Congregationalist minister, considers national greatness. He says that it is found in the treatment of the weak and helpless.
The unborn? Kids in cages? Gaza? Kids pressured into surgeries? Black Americans going about their business and having tragic results of a traffic stop? The lonely in nursing homes? Anything on that list that makes you uncomfortable? Could others view them in a different way than you?
Thomas Watson was an English Puritan. Here he prescribes what ought to be the measure of a Christian life, drawing on 1 Cor 13:8; Matthew 25, and Heb 16:13. Sharing, love, feeding. This isn’t the totality of Christian doctrine, but it’s the marks that Jesus said will identify his sheep.
Is much of modern, Xian conservative culture obsessed with finding reasons people are undeserving of love?
Greg Johnson