...I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace....And then I list in my head all those who have been put forth as spokespersons for the Christian Right. Folks like Michele Bachmann, Tony Perkins, Sarah Palin, James Dobson, Michelle Malkin, Franklin Graham, Ann Coulter, etc. etc. I am amazed at the disconnect. It's pretty hard to reconcile this passage from Ephesians with the hatefulness, divisiveness, arrogant judgmentalism, and general neo-Phariseeism that is the stock in trade of this list of people and most of the Christian Right.
It's even more disappointing (but, alas, not surprising) that my church body (WELS) gives its tacit endorsement to all of this nonsense. It appears that WELS is willing to overlook all sorts of doctrinal false teaching, so long as they agree with their politics.
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