hypocrisy – Justin B. Fung

Pride

by Justinchurch, justice 7 November, 20127 November, 2012No Comments

[Part 2 of a blog adaptation of the October 28 message at The District Church: “Jubilee.”] After Acts 4–after the heady hope of the Jubilee community, after the generosity and selfless sacrifice of Barnabas–we move into chapter 5, and we run face-first into reality. Ananias and his wife Sapphira sell a piece of property, keep some …

Perhaps the church ought to be more concerned …

by Justinother people's words 25 July, 200927 February, 2010No Comments

Reinhold Niebuhr: Perhaps the church ought to be more concerned to bring the goodness of Christ as a judgment upon every fragmentary form of human goodness than to find the particular cause which might be identified with Christ. There are many good causes and just claims which turn to into evil at the precise point …