A Growing Intolerance

I'm a member, along with my wife, of New Life Church of God in Christ on Oakwood where Bishop Edward T. Cook is the Pastor. Along the back of the sanctuary is a large banner. It reads; Deliberate Mediocrity is a Sin.

This banner sums up the attitude our Pastor and the members of New Life have when it comes to pew sitting as a vocation. The banner is across the back of the Sanctuary so we can all read it on our way to our respective mission fields;

Deliberate Mediocrity is a Sin!

Personally, I believe there is a divine intolerance within the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Whether it’s Jesus making a whip and driving out distractions from intended purpose or Jesus’ healing of a crippled woman on the Sabbath and being threatened for doing so. He was intolerant towards any evil that resulted in people being threatened, abused or ignored.

While we live in a society that preaches tolerance as an antidote to hatred and discrimination - and well we should. We also realize of course, that tolerance is a double edge sword in that you cannot be tolerant of a particular thing, without being intolerant of its opposite.

And so I hope you've come to your own divine intolerance to the injustices around you. That you've grown your own resistant strain toward mediocrity. When all around you may suggest a conservative approach, remember that to observe Christs' teachings and follow His model of living results in a passionate focus that is unrelenting and without so much of a flinch, during times of distress

Intolerant of the darkness,
Dan