|
When I do site visits in various grant making processes, I generally get to ask the applicants the difficult or hard questions about why they are asking for funding, what they plan to do with it if they get it and how they are going to show what they accomplished. I am gentle, polite, but probing and direct with such questions. Those are the questions whose answers can often predict the success or failure of an endeavor. So I am going to pose some of the hard questions to some of our colleagues: Bishops Stanton, Duncan, Salmon, Iker, Howe et al, as well as David Anderson, Ellis Brust, et al: Are you certain that you wish to be identified with the way Archbishop Akinola expresses his way of following Jesus Christ? Is that the model you want to use to "win the world to Christ?" Is ++Peter's methodology one of which you can be proud as a Christian? It's certainly one thing to differ in interpretation about Scripture.....we've all been living with that scenario for a few centuries now. It's quite another to endorse and uphold the actions of one who claims to follow Jesus but who also participates (whether actively or tacitly) in the torture and murder of those who - for whatever reason - he does not agree. I'm inclined toward a position I have stated before, namely that this entire enterprise has never been about human sexuality but about power and control. As the evidence continues to unfold, that seems more and more true every day. Allying oneself with a corrupt government is pretty much an indication that power and control are the issues. It's ironically amusing: Our brothers in the global South seem to have honed their skills at one western trait to the max: corruption and how to make the most of it before you get caught. The questions are hard.....will I hear any answers? Perhaps some plan just got out of hand and now no one knows how to get it back under control??? Bruce Garner, Lay Alternate, Atlanta |