Sunday, August 14, 2022

Divisions on Earth

This Sunday's reading from Luke 12:49-56 should have been read at the opening of the recent gathering of Anglican bishops at Lambeth, 
‘I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; they will be divided:
father against son
   and son against father,
mother against daughter
   and daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
   and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’
 He also said to the crowds, ‘When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, “It is going to rain”; and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, “There will be scorching heat”; and it happens. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?

If they had heard it at Lambeth, I don't think the revisionist bishops would have made the connection. 

1 comment:

  1. Katherine9:19 AM

    It's the opposite of "two integrities" or whatever their line is about ignoring Scripture and the evidence of their own eyes.

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