Narrow Way Cafe

Orphangelical

“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Every saint has a past, every sinner a future.”

Oscar Wilde

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They fail to alter their views to fit the facts. Instead, they alter facts to fit their views.

Dr. Who

Good Figs and Bad, Upside is Down.

Dgg

I acknowledge those who are carried away captive…

Jeremiah 24:5

Upside down.

Seems like everywhere one looks, things are upside down.

Orphans of the Church, being castaways and victims of religious apartheid – draw nearer to the Lord. In their aloneness He is all that matters.

You never know God is all you need until He is all you have.

R Warren.

Jeremiah hears from God about two baskets of figs. “one basket had very good figs… the other… had very bad figs.”

The good figs were dispersed into Babylon.

I have sent (them) out of this place for their own good.

V5

The bad figs, God goes on to condemn – the ones who avoided expulsion – calling them “residue of (the place of peace) who remain”

I will deliver them to trouble … for their harm, to be a reproach and abyword, a taunt and curse…

V9

If church was a house of prayer, a place of peace and for true worship – instead of for political correctness and a prison of cliquishness – everyone would feel welcome. Strangers would be attracted to visit.

But the church is not a welcoming place, and it hasn’t been for a generation. People have learned this. In the view of the public – evangelicalism has become an enemy of social justice. And to a large extent, the political evidence is there to back up this point of view.