One leader, many flowers [John 12]

One of the Alinsky rules is identify the leaders and subvert them. Isolate them, mock them, attack them. For it is much easier to attack an individual than the system. I see this with the complaint systems we have: when errors occur we look at the system and try to work out why it happened (eg. It was 2 AM, Everyone had been working on the case for eight hours without break. A new person did not get handover…)

However, politicians and the press and the patient want revenge. They want the doctor accountable, or the nurse, or both. At times: the average Kiwi is quite reasonable and will forgive gross errors if they can see steps are taken to acknowledge them and make sure they don’t happen again.

Now, the cathedral are trying to find those who they can isolate. They want to attack the Bishop, subvert the Pope, depose the Patriarch, and have scandals involving Pastors or their children.

In doing so, they make an error. None of us are leaders. We are followers.

We are the kingdom of Christ in this earth, and he is our leader, her is our salvation. And it will be his words that damn those who do not believe his witness.

And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”

(John 12:44-50 ESV)

An aside. I’m taking most of the images in this blog from the twitter stream at present. You can uplift photos fairly easily. Today the photo is about the contrast. One is feminine and accepts that there is an order and there is a role for her: the other wants to smash all authority, and be converged with Lucifer.

Don’t be converged. For the words of Christ will stand against you. There are witnesses for Christ: I aim to be one, my brother Mundabor will be one, or Will at Patriactionary, and Scott, who now mainly posts on Facebook. For women, I’d recommend Hearthie and the Ladies she links too, or Grerp.

If you want theology, look at the L’Abri site, or follow the other links. There are many.

If you are of Christ, know them, bookmark them, support and pray for those witnessing, and note that at times people are taken down. That matters not at all. Some other will stand and take that place.

But if you are not of Christ understand but this: Christ was born so he could atone for your sins. He obeyed God even to dying slowly and painfully for your wrongdoing. He then raised himself from the grave, and conquered death. He will raise us. He is life and hope and our salvation.

And there is no other way to avoid being damned. The convergence is not a life: it is a legalistic and hateful death.

Choose Christ. Not this elite.