What Do We Do About Them? - Acts 17:16-34
I have remained silent on an issue that troubled so many over the last week and a half. I have listened and read as folks on one side of the issue or the other have quickly offered their thoughts…some I believe without running them through the filter of common sense (and just to let you know, if any of you and I have engaged in written or verbal dialogue in the last week and a half, I am not talking about any of you—when I question the common sense, I am thinking of some of the religious leaders across our nation), others I have watched respond out of fear or operating out of a bias that they have been taught over time. I know it is a subject matter that consumed many of our congregation, because while the news may have been out there, I must have been contacted by four or five members of our congregation within two hours of the issue being picked up by national news services. For those of us who missed the unbelievable controversy, it is the question ...