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It's Ok to Question

I don’t plan on persuading too many people. My audience is insignificant, at best. In addition, I don’t say things that make people feel great. I say things that are divisive. It’s not my agenda. But, It is the result. I like to think that I look at things critically and logically, with a full measure of my faith as the foundation. But, when I do this, it causes me great discomfort. I find myself questioning things that I always thought, simply were. I find myself asking, “ Why do I do this?” The answer is often, “Because I always have.” To me, that isn’t enough. I need more than that. The world needs more than that. “Churchies” certainly need more than that. I am tired of hearing people say things that are loosely or not at all tied to Scripture, all the while proclaiming those things to be “known truths.” Baptists call themselves people of “The Book.” Yet, a lot of what they say is stuff that has been concocted in the narrow pericope of incest-derived truth. This is...