Meaningful Conversations With Delicious Beverages
Back to work! After a couple of Highlights episodes, AJ and Brandon get back into their conversation about Baptism and transubstantiation. Where is the need for baptism found? Where are its effects? What actually changes?
St. Paul advises us all to "Run so as to win." Interestingly, though, he does this right after talking about how he strives to be all things to all people, even that he "became weak, to win over the weak." It is clear that St. Paul, when he talks about running so to win, he isn't viewing those he shares the word with as competition.
I will share with you something I learned by being in conflict with multiple people whom I care about. The lesson is that confrontation is love and cancel culture denies dignity.
Is it just me, or do we focus to much on sin when we think about Baptism? What about the relationships it brings us into?
There is an enemy, and he is real, and he is a threat. Not to God, no, but to us. God allows us to choose Him, and to choose freely. Evil desires us to misuse that freedom and reject Him.
One of the things that has always seemed pretty self-evident to me is that it is way easier to identify problems in a current situation than it is to develop a good solution. The ultimate result of this, it seems, is a very chaotic stagnation where seeds are constantly planted, but then ripped out of the soil before they have a chance to bear any fruit so that new seeds can be planted, most likely to also be removed prematurely.
Continuing to work through Brandon's book on witchcraft, he and AJ talk about the origins and justifications for persecution and our desire for control.