Make your own “Title” Box…

At some point truth has to trump "unity". I understand the whole "grace in non-essentials" bit, but in my opinion, this may not be so much of a non-essential.

See—the fact that we don’t necessarily agree on this may help support my point. Where do we draw the line as to what is and is not essential? Salvation? Salvation + Morality? What is Morality? Many Christians are beginning to suggest that a national policy of security through preemption is not moral.

So is the Bush doctrine on the “non-essential” list? Should we stop at preemption, especially when there are loads of other immoral actions? What about all those check-advance / pay-day-loans / car-title-loan predatory-lender slime? (Or others that profit off the enslavement of others.) What about a Christian car salesman, who knowingly sells cars to people that cannot or should not buy (afford) them? What about the abortion continuum? Does the life of the mother mean anything—or should we just have faith? What about the people that may have intentionally lost count on the amount of morphine they administered to the dying patients in Intensive Care in a flooded hospital that was out of supplies and energy while being evacuated without any type of support? What about the pharmacist or drug-store-employee that deals with the day-after-pill? What about the high school teacher that works at a school teaching goofy stuff like slippery-slope-sex-ed or moral relativism? Where’s the line drawn?

So what’s your truth Matt? And is your truth the same as mine? To quote my heritage, In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things, love. In my eyes, the essentials are the issues surrounding Salvation. Everything else appears to be open to interpretation.