Who We Are

I want to borrow a thought from Peggy Noonan. In a recent Op-Ed piece she comments on “public dissatisfaction” in our culture.

I’ve long thought that public dissatisfaction is about more than the economy, that it’s also about our culture, or rather the flat, brute, highly sexualized thing we call our culture.
Now I’d go a step beyond that. I think more and more people are worried about the American character-who we are and what kind of adults we are raising. (Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal)

I think that coincides with my “dissatisfaction” about the Church. We seem to have lost our perception of a Biblical view of, what we so casually call, Christianity. A Biblical view calls one to an acceptance and understanding of the nature and work of “The Lord” vs. the nature and work of the “slave.” (Correct word, however unpopular)

In other words, who we are, is much more important than what we do. Who the Lord is, is much more important than our perception or willingness to accept what He does.

Just as we worry about what kind of “people” we have become from a cultural perspective, we need to be greatly concerned about what kind of people we have become from a Biblical perspective. In fact, the latter informs the former. Until we return to a Biblical worldview, become obedient Believers under the Lordship of Christ, we might considering ignoring the Biblical mandate to “worry about nothing” and find ourselves very, very concerned about the rebellion among the slaves.