Archive for March 26th, 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-26

  • wondering if it was a good idea to watch a west wing when I got home last night: pretty tired today. #
  • almost out the door and the stupid system breaks. Still at work #
  • All full and happy from breakfast with @hdcoffeeboy. Beautiful day outside but I don’t have a good way to use it, on call for work. #
  • back in the office, but with work to do – perfect! #
  • wishing a very big happy birthday to my mum. #
  • just had BlackHawk helicopters hovering about 50m from our window. WAY TOO COOL! #
  • http://twitpic.com/2dcxk – Picture of the black hawk going past #
  • Got fouled off in my basketball game this evening. Bit sad really. #
  • How to tell if you are surrounded by invisible bears: http://e-merl.com/2009-03-24-surrounded #
  • New Post #aflfooty – The Wounded Tiger Supercoach Team http://tinyurl.com/ckz5wf #
  • feel like I”m doing worthwhile work at the moment – it’s a nice feeling #
  • also feel like I’m unable to type without makign a typo #
  • Only 10ish hours until the start of the #aflfooty season and I’ll be there! (albeit right up the back of the Ponsford) #
  • New Post #aflfooty – The 22 for Round 1 – considering the omitted http://tinyurl.com/co5b2w #
  • really quite excited about the #aflfooty season starting, and especially tonight’s game! #
  • RT @puntroad: wakes up from terrible dream about #richmond loosing by 83 and cuz doing his hamstring and raines busting his . . .oh. I see. #
  • licking my wounds. Suffice to say I have a sore throat after last night. #

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More Biblical than the Bible

Scot McKnight (there’s no better God-blogger) has attacked the idea that we should go further to be purer in our “sin-avoidance” attempts, specifically with respect to alcohol:

“What I find every year in this conversation is a serious, but repeated mistake. The tack is this: If I take a stand more “biblical than the Bible,” then I can’t be wrong. That is, if I choose not to drink at all, I will keep myself from sin and all appearance of evil and will be safe. This is what I call the sin of “zealotry” — the belief that if we are more extreme than the Bible, then we can’t be wrong. Wrong.”

via The Bible and Alcohol – Jesus Creed.

As someone who went along to a Christian school which in lots of ways leant pretty hard in this direction (generally, obviously not just alcohol), this is such a refreshing and freeing thing to hear. I think we’ve embraced this idea that we have to do things “just to be safe”, not recognising that it’s the same legalism we’re embracing for “safety” that Jesus railed against in the Pharisees.

And yet having said all that, I completely understand that there are very valid reasons why Christians would choose not to drink alcohol. But if the reason you’re doing it is to make yourself holier than Jesus, then maybe you’ve pushed “biblical” a bit far.

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