How fine is your filter?
When we go backpacking or canoeing we always carry a water filter to purify our drinking water because most if not all water contains little nasties that will mess up your system and eventually could kill you. Filters come in all different types and levels of filtration any wear from a cheesecloth to megamicron-barely-let-h20-through filters. Which would you rather drink water from?
In our christian lives we need to have a filter for everything that we "drink into" our lives. How fine our filter is will determine how many "nasties" are allowed in. So in reference to our "liberties" "gray areas" I will tell you what I tell my campers, "go ahead and drink it unfiltered, it might not kill you". It is worth the time to stop and filter it.
posted by Todd Paris @ 5:26 AM
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"It might not kill you"; subtle, yet effective. Do you think that it might work with teens? Go ahead, have a relationship with an unbeliever -- it might not kill you. Go ahead, listen to whatever you want to musically -- it might not kill you. Go ahead, disrespect your parents -- it might not kill you. Eph 6:1-3, emphasis on 3!
How about Romans 6:23!
Rom 6:23 probably applies to the black and white issues (yes)? Ten commandments, et al
But you weren't talking about drinking straight poison. You were talking about ingesting critters.
It might not kill you. It may just make you and the rest of your team miserable.
:)
Mike
The critter or nasties represent the sin. The possibility of them being in the water is the grey area. Therefore if the penalty of not filtering at all is pretty sure of getting sick, filtering with a broad filter means maybe getting sick and filtering with an ultra-fine micro filter means 99.99% protected. Then in a christians life the choices of life that may not be black and white(water) may contain sin(nasties) and the wages of that sin is death(sickness) then how fine do you want to filter things?
I think all of your analogies are "muddy-ing the waters". Pun intended, of course.
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