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The Glory of Our Differences |
Revelation chapter 4 and 5 |
Few subjects today are more difficult to preach about than pluralism and our human differences. In a time when everyone wants to believe that he or she is right, particularly when it comes to religion, it is very hard to come to terms with what John Berthrong has called the "divine deli" of the world's religions. How are we to believe that we are right in our Christian faith without, at the same time, having to say that everyone must therefore be wrong? That is the question of our age, boiling over in our ever shrinking world. I found at least one way to talk about it in what I hope is a thoughtful manner in, of all places, these two chapters of John's Apocalpyse. It is one of that series that I preached through Revelation, and I was startled, I guess, to come across what it was saying. It is the gathering around the throne story; and while some could probably twist it to sinister ends, I take great delight in preaching it as a story, not about the end of time but about the here and now. See what you think. |