When you're clergy you have a decision to make: to put a clergy sticker on your car or not? A clergy sticker does have it's benefits at time: decent and most of the time free parking spaces at hospitals. No questions when you park in those spaces for the pastor. But it also has its draw backs for me. If you get pulled over driving, you generally get the "you of all people should have known better." Then there's the whole thing of to honk or not to honk, to give the New York wave or not. To speed more then just a few over or not? I do have a clergy sticker on my car and I do find myself going ohh...maybe I shouldn't do this or that. Some days I think I just scrap the thing off. I'm not sure that it stands for what I once thought it was and I'm not sure that I like being defined by a sticker on my car. I don't think the perks of having the sticker on my car outweigh everything else. So I guess I just created a new project for myself. I wonder how long it'll take to scrap the thing off my car window?
In a conversation with a more conservative Christian then me (take in mind I call myself a bed-wetting liberal and I’m also a big time Process Theologian) the person started rambling off scripture quotes (proof texting really) to make a point. I have never claimed to be a great memorizer of anything. And even though I have read the Bible many times and own many copies of the Bible, I am still not a person who can just pull out scripture references in mid conversation. I do have several verses that I turn to and love dearly but I can’t tell you word for word what John 2:5 or Ruth 1:4 says. This got me thinking, why do Christians really feel the need to qualify their faith based on the amount of scripture that they can recite from memory? While it may be very handy to be able to quote scripture in a variety of situations, I believe that this can be dangerous. Proof texting (pulling scripture, from any religion, to support an argument without careful and learned consideration for its cont
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