A Must Read from Shaun Groves…

January 31st, 2007 | Posted in » Baptist Issues, Worth Reading

I’ve been reading Shaun Groves’ blog for about a month now and have to say… I highly recommend it. He shares a lot of great stuff.

This post, part 4 of a series entitled, “The ‘Jesus’ You Never Heard”, is a must read, and seems quite appropriate when applied to many of the recent SBC controversies. How? We, like Shaun (albeit in regard to our denominational spats rather than the Christian music industry), may see a lot of bad stuff going on… behavior that doesn’t seem to honor Christ… arguments, rhetoric, and other nonsense that just don’t seem very becoming of believers… things that cause us to lose faith and trust in our brothers and sisters… you name it. Whatever the case, we allow cynicism to creep in.

We’ve got to force ourselves to realize that the behavior of the few (or even the many) does not define the character of all. There are a good number of people out there who love God with all of their heart, all of their mind, all of their soul, and all of their strength… and they’re not just on “our side”. Chances are, in our denominational battles, even those that don’t seem very Christ-like (from our limited viewpoint, as seen from “our side”) probably believe in their hearts that what they’re doing is being done to honor God.

We’ve got to fight our tendency toward cynicism.

I feel pretty safe in saying it’s NOT a Christ-like attitude.

(Be sure to check out parts one, two, and three for the rest of Shaun’s story. It’s worth your time.)

5 Responses to “A Must Read from Shaun Groves…”

  1. By Kevin Bussey on Feb 1, 2007

    Good stuff. I love his music.

  2. By Kevin Bussey on Feb 1, 2007

    My post didn’t go through. I think I’ve been tagged as spam. Anyway, I love Shaun Groves. Thanks for the link.

  3. By John on Feb 1, 2007

    You did get tagged as spam (I’m not sure why though). Thankfully, I was able to recover the comments and “de-spam” you. Hopefully it won’t occur again.

  4. By shaungroves on Feb 2, 2007

    Thank you.

    I’ve grown up in the SBC. My father-in-law was once the president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas…tagged a “liberal” and forced to wear a bullet-proof vest at the convention because of so many credible threats on his life. We don’t quite have that level of animosity in the music business YET.

    Here’s hoping peace breaks out in both our worlds.

    -Shaun

  5. By bryan riley on Feb 3, 2007

    Thanks for the tip. I had no idea he had a blog/shlog. Great stuff!

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