How can you ignore a link that is titled, "How to save society"?
I have the answers right here. Yes. This is what everyone has been missing.
What could it be? And who is handing out this lost wisdom? So, I clicked the link. It turns out that Vox Day, novelist, Christian libertarian, and author of the blog Vox Popoli, is the one with the answer we need to save society. He reminds us that it is not politics that saves souls.
There
is, I submit, more faith in George W. Bush than Jesus Christ in the
evangelical wing of the Republican party; one imagines that Karl Rove
will soon prophesy of the Third Coming of The Bush, a King of the South
of pure blue blood who will save America from the Scarlet Woman of
Arkansas.
But the world is fallen, damned. Salvation comes through grace alone, not through politicians.
First, I have to chime in that politics and faith are not exclusionary. Every time this subject comes up I am reminded of Paul in the book of Acts claiming his rights as a citizen. (I'd also point out that there's both a Christian right and a Christian left in this country with both sides prancing on the partisan path. Though admittedly, the right is more identified as an essential portion of the Republican base. )
That being said, Vox has a point. If we weigh the importance of these two subjects in relation to one another, the eternal matter of faith must outweigh the temporal matter of politics. He's also right to be asking Christians, to which of these two things do you expend the greater effort?
O.K. I'm becoming uncomfortable. Because this is leading me to a subject that will be difficult to explain.
Let me start with Sunday morning. I set my alarm and got up early with the intention of going to church. Frankly, I've been less excited about doing that for a while now. There are many good reasons to go to church, but the ones that resonate with me are:
- to be reminded who God is
- to be reminded who I am
- to meet with God and worship Him with others
If we are made of body, soul, (the mind, will, and emotions), and spirit, what I'm looking for is something that touches my spirit. I really don't know if I have the words to describe what I'm talking about.
Maybe you've had a similar experience with music at some time? It happened to me recently watching the highlights of Live8. Annie Lennox started, "Sweet Dreams are made of these..." and it grabbed onto a part of me unexpectedly. Music has the ability to bypass our filters and get to the core of who we are.
In a sense, that's what has been missing for me in church recently. I needed something to bypass all the filters and get to the core of who I am and why I'm there. No B.S.
So, you understand my frame of mind.