I walked down to the local conveniance store with son one for caffiene and the Australian. Within it was a report on more dealths of Christians in Nigeria, and the usual twittering by the politically correct about multiculturalism.
In the meantime, on the Pentecostal front, we are having men who are supposed to be in leadership acting in ways that are simply wrong, and besmirching the name of the church.
(I have just linked to a sperm donor site. You have to think of the children: I know of one child who has found her bioligical father and been accepted within that family, but it is a very hard thing for any woman to think — that there are unknown children of the man whom she loves who might just turn up in a decade or so. New Zealand law opens the adoption and donation books after 20 years).
So what now to do?
5The LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. 6And the LORD was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7So the LORD said, “I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created — people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8But Noah found favor in the sight of the LORD.
12Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.
it is far too easy to grieve God. We have a duty to do good. By doing this, particularly in a time of corruption and violence, we bear witness to the viability and truth of the gospel.
But we need to be careful about what we do. Because non beleivers have, as Paul said, the law written in their hearts. Without getting all Thomistic, there is some truth in natural law — something that postmodernists vehemently deny (as they demand full rights for their sins and condemn those who live rightly or preach correctly)
We must live righly, and not fall into our own tendency to be corrupt.