The last paragraph of Chris Budden's Newsletter gave me cause to think
If we engage with people in their real world, if we listen to the stories, if we stand with people in their struggles, we may get a chance to tell our story and what it suggests about how human life is really meant to be. We may find an opportunity to suggest a different take on what is happening to them, one that provides hope.
To what extent do we balance the 'standing with people in their struggles' with 'suggesting a different take' -
I worry that the sterotypical liberals (the ones my more conservative colleauges poke fun at) may get so involved in the struggles that they forget about
the different take...
I worry that the sterotypical conservative/evangelicals (the ones my more liberal colleagues poke fun at) may jump to the different take so soon that
they haven't stood alongside yet...
I commit both sins - and often...
Not sure if this is worth comment but I am often challenged by Chris' stuff - especially when he stops quoting people who quote other people
who quote other people ... etc :) (see paragraph two for an example - Denise Ackermann reports that Letty Russell said that she heard Krister Standahl quote a Rabbinic saying that)
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