Sunday.....Christianity.....Straw And Rebar

I just watched the television program Origins that deals with science and creation and gives the podium each week to a different scientist for a 30 minute lecture. Dr. David Menton was the guest and the topic was God's handiwork in the designing of bones. Dr. Menton (of Answers in Genesis http://www.answersingenesis.org/ ) gave two analogies, one of straw used in the making of bricks in Old Testament times and the other of rebar used in reinforced concrete, with the structure of bones. Concrete by itself would be too brittle and subject to breaking up. Rebar, by itself, would bend. The two materials need each other, and straw was needed for brick in the same capacity. My thoughts turned to the church. I'm only attempting to help hold the ladder in the building of sound doctrine from Scripture and defending it against false teachings emanating from the mind of man but there are those in the church worldwide that acknowledge the truths of Scripture and their ladder is used in more practical everyday matters of the Christian's life. There is a tendency for those on each ladder to give critical glances to each other as if to say Come over here and give help where it is really needed. In reality, either of us would collapse if not meld together and bonded together as brothers and sisters in Christ. If only we could lift up the work of each other. We cannot be so doctrinal minded that our salt has lost its savor and we cannot be so consumed with salting the earth that there is no firm ground for a foundation to build upon. It's my duty to examine myself daily on this issue. There are a lot of words coming from this blog on issues of terrorism, the economy and politics. There's a tendency for some to go right back to 1776 and for someone like me the tendency is to go back further to at least the Plymouth Colony but there is one big difference in the latter society and a structural difference with the former. We are no longer a Caucasian society. Ayn Rand's words do not help in building a nation of equals nor even does the words of Adam Smith. The Republican Party waved this banner of equality at one time while the other sought to tear it down, and the Democratic Party later waved it as the other party ignored it. Today the Democrats wave it but it is so enmeshed with political gain that it actually worsens the situation. I won't be so arrogant as to give an answer to this when others have labored their whole life on this concern but I will give my opinion that if the Christian church were strengthened, if it proclaimed Christ, and His cross rather than anything but, then we all would be so humbled that our views of what success is would not send us off in search of riches, and our view of ourselves would so prostrate us that we could not possibly look down on anyone.