When Theology Gets in the Way
When Theology gets in the way Main Point: Christ calls us to love first, not proclaim the truth as we see it. When we reverse this, we turn to judgment rather than mercy; law over grace. When I graduated from seminary way back when, it was popular to take tests or surveys to determine your spiritual gifts. These tests were comprised of choices between extremes and people inevitably came out favoring one set of gifts over another. Someone might be a teacher, another a helper, still another might be a prophet(one who sees black and white and cuts right to the ‘truth’) I discovered I was sort of in this last category. I knew I was weak in several areas, but I did have a passion for the truth. So, that settled it…I would create ministries around this truth-telling. All the while, I knew that to be put in a box, so-to-speak, was not very helpful. Many of us used