I lament the death of outrage. Without a sense of outrage we run the serious risk of being ordinary when God created us to be extraordinary. Outrage makes you do things that are out of the ordinary. Without it we run the risk of becoming nice people in a nice church. To be honest, that makes me want to reach for the nearest bucket. That may seem a bit harsh but we do get an echo of this in the Book of Revelation where God vomits over lukewarm believers. God only gave us ten commandments; there is no eleventh that says, "Thou shalt be nice." Jesus, the head of the church, is no Mr. Nice Guy. Christians seem to have bought into the sickening idea that niceness is the essence of goodness. No more of this insipid niceness. A nice soldier is an oxymoron. Nice soldiers do not win wars.
Mick Duncan, Who Stands Fast?
Mick Duncan, Who Stands Fast?
I agree that we do not often hear much 'fire and brimstone' preaching today, but more often get soothed, comforted and accepted. I think that's important, too, but maybe makes it easier to drift into complacency and ineffectiveness. We should hate, and be outraged by, the things that God hates (pride, deception, evil). “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). If we aren't outraged, have we conformed to worldly thinking? Thanks for posting.
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