tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15247127.post8817984343626468612..comments2023-06-22T07:08:38.329-06:00Comments on D'Caffeinated Pickle: Willard on PluralismIncreasing...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04415949902147061601noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15247127.post-31113635468058859482007-03-01T14:04:00.000-07:002007-03-01T14:04:00.000-07:00We have lived in a church culture that has entrenc...We have lived in a church culture that has entrenched the idea that conforming to a set of dogmas is ultra important. Conformity has become a strong functional objective. Look at most of our discipleship strategies and it is seems like the objective is to make people believe the same thing. We don't have room for competing ideas within the church. We have place a really high value on certainity as well. So if a person suggests a differing perspective the implications are that they are labelled as weak in their faith or worse.<BR/>I for one have not done as good a job as I could have at presenting my convictions with humble grace. humble grace that respects how my own perspective might be off putting to some one else and recognizes that my convictions may be wrong.<BR/>In my (weak) mind it sorta comes down to diversity versus conformity and I would probably lean more toward diversity.Increasing...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04415949902147061601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15247127.post-12022007953182284142007-03-01T12:58:00.000-07:002007-03-01T12:58:00.000-07:00nice post Dale. I echo Gil regarding Willard's id...nice post Dale. I echo Gil regarding Willard's idea of pluralism. What I find most interesting about your post is the challenge to laziness. At college, it seems that we're in constant dialogue or debate about postmodernism. It seems to me that pluralism challenges us in the very same way. It is no longer good enough to just point to the Truth, we must live it. I, for one, welcome that change.<BR/><BR/>peace<BR/>JesseLounge MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03995112052654903158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15247127.post-77823121204136902212007-03-01T07:32:00.000-07:002007-03-01T07:32:00.000-07:00I wonder if more people would give Christ a fair c...I wonder if more people would give Christ a fair chance, if Christians weren't trying to hard to suppress their thought process. Do some folks need to ride the merry-go-round a few times before they could consider other things? I wonder how many people get stuck opposing Christianity b/c they've been put on the defensive by Christians. <BR/><BR/>Hmmm...that's a tough one Dale!jeniverehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08771969393074309687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15247127.post-87880047861413468282007-02-28T21:43:00.000-07:002007-02-28T21:43:00.000-07:00I like Willard's idea of pluralism as a demonstrat...I like Willard's idea of pluralism as a demonstration of care for the individual. I agree with you, this is not something to be feared as if the point of Christianity was simply to create Christian societies. The emerging problem is that pluralism has become a bit of an ideology in and of itself where diversity is exalted because we have become too lazy to deal with the hard task of talking about differing convictions.Gilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12848923047252220868noreply@blogger.com