When confronted with the reality of your own sinfulness, you can:
JUSTIFY YOURSELF – like Adam did (Gen. 3:12)
COVER IT UP – like David initially did (2 Samuel 11,12)
DENY IT – like Gehazi (2 Kings 5:20-26)
or you can:
CONFESS IT – like the prodigal (Lk. 15:17-19)
REPENT OF IT – like Ninevah (Jonah 3:1 0)
FORSAKE IT – like Zacchaeus (Luke 19:8)
WASH IT AWAY – like Paul (Acts 22:16)
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Grammar War
A fifth-grade teacher is asking her students to use gender-neutral pronouns in her classroom. Chloe Bressack sent the note home to parents, with a note from “Mx. Bressack.” She writes that she will be using “they, them, their” instead of the more traditional “he, his, she, or hers.” She realizes that it is something new but believes the students will catch on quickly. Miss (?) Bressack also asks the students to refer to her as “Mx Bressack.” Mx is pronounced “mix.”
Jim Geraghty, writing for National Review Online, laments the fact that this math and science teacher (thankfully she doesn’t teach English!) doesn’t know the difference between “one” and “many.” He writes: “the words ,they, them, and their’ already have particular meanings in the English language, and they are used when referring to a group, more than one. …Using a plural pronoun when referring to a singular noun is grammatically incorrect… You can’t decide that in one classroom, the grammatical rules are one way, and in another classroom, they’re different. Grammar isn’t sexist, patriarchal, hetero-normative, racist, or somehow otherwise sinister; it’s just grammar.”
We are in the middle of a culture war with the left in a free fall from basic truths. Yet many of our religious neighbors have been doing the same thing for many, many years.
You go to one denomination and “salvation” means one thing and at another, it means something different. “Baptism” morphs with the different denominations and their traditional views. “Faith,” the same way. “Elders” and “bishops” also are flexible, depending on the denominational superstructure.
But, to use Geraghty’s argument… The New Testament is non-denominational. It was written in the Greek language and that language cannot change from one denomination to the next. Those words have specific meanings in the Greek language (for one) and in the context of the New Testament (for another). To use “marriage” to refer to a homosexual relationship is theologically incorrect. To use “faith” or “believe” to refer to someone’s action that does not culminate in baptism is also theologically incorrect. To define “baptism” to include babies or sprinkling is, likewise, theologically incorrect.
The New Testament does not belong to a denomination. It transcends all denominations and calls all, everyone, to submit to its definitions, practices, beliefs, and church structure.
Our denominational friends have inadvertently and unwillingly contributed to the gender wars by refusing to accept theological truth as much transcendent as biological or grammatical truths. Maybe you can use this current controversy to open a discussion about God’s pattern for saving man.
–Paul Holland
