Questions were invited during the sermon; I had a couple but didn't get to the head of the queue. Comments really. Here they are:
1. the challenge we face is to live in grace (as Paul enjoins)
surrounded by a workplace, or social life that is not configured as Paul
encourages us...particularly as we (humans) often take offense of
pride so easily.
2. Col 3:20 can so easily be
'de-graced' as we read it; imposing on kids 'you have to obey me becuase
God commands it' devoid of the context of love...Eph 6:4 throws a bit
of light with 'do not provoke to anger'. We so easily forget the basic
context of the gospel, indeed the whle Bible is that 'God is love' and
everything is motivated by this.
One of the chilling stats that was mentioned was the demographic of violence against women: young men. My only observation is that this perhaps represents a retreat of the vague Christian consensus (get rid of Christianity from the public square and you get rid of its benefits), a reaction that flows from the feminist logic that men and women are equal, and the favouring of women over men in public discourse.
On this latter point, I've noticed in my local paper that girls appear in good news stories far more than boys. The resentment this might foster is insidious.
None of this is an excuse, it is rather an observation of society madly entertaining delusions. And not to overturn the radical teaching of Paul in Galatians 3:28.
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