Okay, so a while ago I acquired a xanga and have been mainly posting on that (the thing below is a post from it). Sorry. Also in the process of moving, so posts will be more sparatic than usual.

Don’t Rock the Boat!

How many times have you heard this phrase?

Has is ever stuck with you? Does it matter to you in your everyday life?

It never mattered to me until recently, Sunday in fact. Pastor Lucido (filling in for our Pastor Kirkeide, who’s on vacation), gave a sermon on rocking the boat, using the example of the prophet Amos, who rocked Israel’s boat of contentment with being just like pagan countries. I never realized until yesterday that our faith really rocks the boat. The boat of secularity. Our boat of contentment.

Many people find our faith offensive. That’s fine, they can have their opinion, but the thing that really gets me is that they say, "how dare you interrupt our perfect (haha) society with your revolting ideas!" While they shove their skimpy clothes, promiscuous, feministic, gay accepting, mass murdering (abortion), un-American worldview down our throats. "You’d better accept it," they say. "How dare you rock the boat!" and "Majority = Acceptable."

Okay. Rewind! Before you ask me how dare WE rock the boat, let’s take a look at society two hundred, even one hundred years ago. You’d be rocking the boat, not me.

And don’t tell me that women were forced to be docile, barefoot-and-pregnant-in-the-kitchen, subservient wives. Women played a major role in society and in fact, throughout history, many women have made a mark in history (a good mark, mind you, not like your feminist crazyheads today), such as Clara Barton, Marie Curie, and Dolly Madison.

And don’t give me your crap about women’s choice in murdering their unborn child. (If it’s not alive, as you all claim, then why do you have to kill it?)

Don’t get me started on discrimination of gays. You just don’t wanna go there.

Having a majority in something does not make that thing acceptable. If a majority of Americans were murderers, does that make murdering acceptable? If a majority of Americans were abusive, does that make abuse okay? Majority cannot equal acceptability, because if something is wrong, it's wrong. No shading the truth. (My little LD part of this post )

In short, you can have your opinions, but you have to let me have mine. And I’ll rock the boat as much as I want. (Ever considered that you might be rocking my boat?) No more docility in this Lutheran. You won’t brainwash me, I’m not content with and won’t accept your pagan beliefs and you can’t shake me with whatever you throw at me. I know what I believe. I know it will save me. Can you say the same about your beliefs?

So rock the boat, fellow Children of God. Dare to be different. (Like Martin Luther! ) Dare to defy sin and secularity. (And for my fellow Lutherans, Dare to be Lutheran!)

I double-dog dare you to!

(Thanks to Rev. Lucido for being a modern day Amos and rocking my boat.)

Now, comments please…::grin::

Jade