{"id":943,"date":"2007-02-12T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=943"},"modified":"2007-02-12T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T12:05:15","slug":"what_the_world_sees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"What the “world” sees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruth Gledhill<\/a> from the British Times Online wrote a commentary this past weekend.
\nThis one sentence is, well, the most important in my mind:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sometimes I just wish the Anglican hierarchy could step back and consider for a minute how all this looks to the outside world.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/em>
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting up on a righteous indignation soap-box, so get ready\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nThis whole situation is just so very sad. People from the right and the left yell, and yell, and yell about being all righteous and verbally attack and verbally attempt to kill their opponents with one more rhetorical jab, all the while the world looks on and says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes, we are justified in ignoring the Church and believing it no longer offers anything much important for a good life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nIf the very people who claim to love Jesus so much (conservative or liberal) will not listen to the very command of Jesus to love our neighbors (in this case, simply sit down at a friggin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 table with a neighbor), or abide by the even more demanding, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have heard that it was said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLove your neighbor and hate your enemy.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, then why should any non-Christian listen to us?
\nWhy should they see the hope of Christ in us? Most have already spoken – they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t! Christians church-hop, and when they do one group or another claims God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s divine approval of their position because at the moment they have the most \u00e2\u20ac\u0153already-decided\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bodies in their pews. Those floundering \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in the world\u00e2\u20ac\u009d don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother looking our way any longer. How sad that we so defame the Mystical Body of Christ in the eyes of the lost by our childish antics!
\nFrankly, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153worldlings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d probably shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look to us, because we are as screwed-up as secular society! Lord have mercy. Oh, God, please have mercy!
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting off my soap-box, now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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