Fear that if my political viewpoints offend loyal readers, well, they won’t be loyal readers any more. Fear that if I admit a friend’s taste in movies and books offends me, it could result in a relationship rift.

What I need to remember is that by ‘going along’, I’m ‘going against’ God’s word…that I only need to pause a nanosecond to hear what HE’D like me to say, instead of depending on my fear-filled self to come up with something PC.

Maybe all I really need to do is change PC from Political Correctness to Please Christ.

I’m twenty-seven, and have been putting off things God has put in my heart, and I’ve been doing this for some time–too long!  I’m at a point where I either pursue those things, or let a big part of myself die along with them.  …but I really don’t want to spend the rest of my life walking around like something out of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, ya’ know?!

Like you mentioned, it’s hard to go against the crowd or family, etc., but if we’re trying to "Please Christ", it’s makes it a lot easier.

By the way, i’m finding my voice on my blog!  http://www.amlovinglivinglife.blogspot.com     

 Thanks!

~Sarah M. 

For example, "Global Ponzi-Schemes of Deception That Caused Economic Crises Linked to Prosperity Preachers and Their Morally-Hazardous Doxie"…  links a prudentbear.com financial writer’s ideas with the wide-angle posit that give-to-get shenanigans of oligarch-like personas of Christian Broadcasting are, in deed, linked to statist anti-natural law political leaders who happily find the broadcast-church-taught sheep easy prey…   What is woefully missing in broadcast Christianity is simple critical thought and self-correction and confession that many errant doxies are taught for the sake of self-interested leaders…. who have together (media, politics, broadcast religion) in collusion created one hell of an economic crisis; wherein the mega-rich are too big to fail and the sheep are too powerless to stop all extractions… But the empowered oligarchs (media, politics, broadcast Christianity) own the media machine… And their collective "eye" is the eye that alters all.  What they say and see about their own agendas seem to successfully occupy the minds of most of their listeners… Thus the moral hazard of the day is mental slavery, mesmerizing deception and inability to see hard truths that expose self-interested agendas of the empowered vaccuums of plebe monies and liberties.

Fear should be cast out at every opportunity, but I think there is something to be said for a love which "goes along" with the crowd.  Jesus went along with the crowd for 30 years, and then 3 years later, in love went along with them again.  I guess there’s a difference between submission in fear and submission in love.  I’d like to be an iconoclast for the latter.

“First, I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming with no offense to it.  Seeing that Christ went about the world giving the most violent offense to all kinds of people, it would seem absurd to expect that the doctrine of his person can be so presented as to offend nobody.  We cannot blink at the fact that gentle Jesus, meek and mild, was so stiff in his opinions and so inflammatory in his language that he was thrown out of church, stoned, hunted from place to place, and finally gibbeted as a firebrand and a public danger.”