John 18:10(NASB)
10 Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave’s name was Malchus.
I once saw a documentary on the Hutterite Brethren. A family
among them lost both parents and began to explore life outside their sect. Lo
and behold, they went to a tent meeting and got saved. A “people group movement”
began when they returned home. Folks who saw the difference between their own law-bound lives and the vibrant joy of these new Christians wanted to hear the
gospel, liberated, as such, from Martin Luther’s old German translation of the Bible.
Amazingly, the secular documentarians recorded the preaching
of the eldest brother. He was urging those who were sharing their faith to
learn from the Apostle Peter’s mistake in the garden
of Gethsemane
There’s a viral video of a little tot at a church in Indiana ,
singing about “no homos in heaven.” His church, no doubt, believes that they
are taking a Biblical stand against the onslaught of religious liberalism which
wants to make us ashamed of scripture and embrace the world’s definitions of
right and wrong. They should take such a stand, but not in this way. They are
doing it in such a way as to cut off the ability of those who need to hear the
gospel from hearing it from them. They are not pointing the way to God’s grace
which is greater than every sin; to the victory over temptation which can be had by everyone of God's children. Until they do, I wonder how many from
among their membership will miss the Way as well?
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