7.15.2005

Cold War

I copied this off of another blog b/c i think his words are extremely profound. Read and consider:

Once there was a 'Cold War', a standoff between two competing world views: that of Democracy and that of Communism. It shaped everything about how we thought, felt, lived, believed. Today there is another Cold War, between the rich and poor, between the powerful and the powerless. This great divide, sooner or later, forces all of God's children into a no-man's land between two equally adamant world views: that in which expedience merely serves our self and that in which the love of Christ is expressed in a surrender of self for a world full of 'others'. It's a a very real conflict fought in the decisions we make and in the questions we ask...

posted by Kelly @ 3:03:00 PM 

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