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The Other Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is one of the few vices that our culture lashes against without apology. It is the one vice that all sincere Christians are deemed guilty of cherishing. With typical fuzzy logic, the world defines hypocrisy as any moral failure on the part of those who love and preach God’s Law. Yet those of the world do not consider that the occasional lapse or fall of a Christian is the result of the world’s relentless attacks — as if treason meant a soldier fell in battle, or suicide meant a patient succumbed to cancer.
True hypocrisy does not consist of mistakes or inconsistencies. It is a willful pretending to be something that one has no intention of being. True hypocrisy is a serious sin, one that Jesus Himself denounced (Matthew 6:2, 5, 16; 23:1-33; etc.). But the so-called hypocrisy that the world loves to paint Christians with is defined in much broader terms.
The Curse of Meroz
This was posted to the FIG group back in 2003. I do not know who the contributor was; the statements are all quotations from Ellen White.
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Establishing Your Price
Sometimes what we believe in ourselves to be a high state of morality is really just an inflation of ego. The question is not what would we do or not do, but what it would take to entice us. This is vividly illustrated by a short story I found some time ago (unfortunately I have lost the reference):
Once upon a time Oscar Wilde was at a gathering. He spied a beautiful woman on the other side of the room, and approached her. After some small talk, he asked, “Would you be willing to sleep with me for a million dollars?”
General Charles Gordon: Selected Thoughts
Dan Augsburger recently posted a collection of short but inspiring quotes — General Charles Gordon: Selected Thoughts. It is refreshing to read the words of someone who is past the “form” of Christianity, and deals candidly with matters of the heart. Charles Gordon was a British general who lived in the 1800s.