This chapter reminds us that the world is still in need of an ethical standard. The last 100 years have held to high ethical teaching and ironically some of the worst human behavior the world has ever seen.
The terror of Idi Amin in Uganda, Hitlers’ fascist state (six million Jews, 7 million other ethnic groups and WWII slaughtered), the Soviet form of Communism (including the Holodomor executed against Ukraine), the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia, Saddam Hussein extinguishing his own citizens, there is an exhaustive list atrocities committed against humanity in the last 100 years.
One line from the chapter… “Practicing what traditionally would have been regarded as blatant evil is now a dominant feature of our world.”
Jesus is no longer the light of the world, ironically darkness is the new light of the world.
God invites us to be ambassadors in this world we call home. How can we find ways to be salt and light in a world that can’t understand us? Thus the importance of fixing our eyes on Jesus, while reaching out to humanity that doesn’t know what they don’t know. Sometimes our attempts to focus on humanity leads us away from what God says. That problem is alive and well today in our churches.
Learning to love without manipulating while learning to stand up for what’s right without arrogance.
Truth, Grace, and Time 