Saturday, September 26, 2009

Two very different perspectives

Speaking of schism and the divisive use of insulting language, here are two very different views on these with regard to how God's covenant people are to relate to each other:

I will not employ sarcasm, dismissiveness, meanness, or insult toward those who do not identify as Christian . . . [b]ut what I believe is the prophetic . . . nature of my writings is, by definition and intent, to be directed toward the Church.
-- Keely Emerine Mix

[Confronting Wilson] is an exercise in endurance and self control -- a baptism of filth, no less necessary for the horror it stirs in me.
-- Keely Emerine Mix

Wilson, et al, are the objects of scorn because Wilson, et al, behave badly in the public square, and any other community, not just a community of "washed up hippies," would learn to despise a man who delights in offering it a stiff middle finger.
-- Keely Emerine-Mix

While I don't see a lot of love for his congregation gushing out of Wilson, I do see a font of a different sort poured out in contempt or indifference when it comes to the great unwashed outside his doors.
-- Keely Emerine-Mix

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; as the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there Yahweh commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
-- Psalm 133

These six things doth Yahweh hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto Him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
-- Proverbs 6:12-19

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
-- Proverbs 10:12

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
-- Proverbs 16:28
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another . . . be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love . . .
-- Romans 12:5,10

For He is our peace, Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
-- Ephesians 2:14-22

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
-- Ephesians 4:29-32

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
-- Phillipians 2:2

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