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   From:  Minister Falcon (OSMFalcon)     7/8/2003 12:43 am  
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A woman recently complained about the youth group her 17-year-old daughter attends.  Her daughter had said something like, "The Trinity is an outmoded concept.  We don't need to think of God in such a complicated way anymore." 

The youth leader had replied, "Well, that's wrong. That's not the way Christians look at it."

The girl's mother was deeply offended: how presumptuous of this youth pastor to tell her daughter she was wrong!

"Your daughter is extremely bright," I said after listening to this mother.  "She's gotten a huge scholarship to the college of her choice.  But she's ignorant and uninformed when it comes to basic Christian doctrine. As Christians, we're not here to say, `I agree or disagree with that. We're here to be instructed, to be enculturated into a very different way of looking at things.

William Willimon

         

 
  
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