The World Vision brouhaha reminds me of Jesus’ exchange with the Pharisees in Mark 7: And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)—then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”(Mark 7:5-13 ESV) In our day, the Pharisees could just as easily ask Jesus, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders (what we define as orthodoxy and orthopraxy), but sponsor children through a defiled organization? Just something to think about.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:05:21 +0000
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