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The Politics of Practical Reason: Why Theological Ethics Must Change Your Life (Theopolitical Visions Book 10)
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As ministers, we can spend a lot of time teaching, debating and arguing the finer points of sexual ethics, from gay marriage to premarital sex to gender identity and more. But when someone comes to faith in Christ today, not only can we not assume they will want to follow a biblical moral code, many will have no idea there is one to follow.
They are
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I've been noticing the signs of it for years. Some are easy to measure. Others are harder to pin down but just as real. Together they point to a hard road ahead for churches or denominations who aren’t paying attention.
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You can see perhaps what Jesus and Paul both meant by telling us to honor “the least of the brothers and sisters” (Matthew 25:40; 1 Corinthians 12:22–25) and to “clothe them with the greatest care.” It is those creatures and those humans who are on the edge of what we have defined as normal, proper, or good who often have the most to teach us.
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This is the pastoral posture we are exhorted to in 1 Peter 5:3: “not domineering.” There are lots of ways pastors become domineering over those in their charge, but the first step is usually to remove oneself more and more from them. When the local church body stops being “the flock of God that is among you,” it becomes much easier to treat them as
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