Activism
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:00 pm
Recently another Christian referred to himself as an iconoclast.
This is the defintion online:
i·con·o·clast
īˈkänəˌklast/
noun
noun: iconoclast; plural noun: iconoclasts
1. a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.
synonyms: critic, skeptic; More
heretic, unbeliever, dissident, dissenter, infidel;
rebel, renegade, mutineer
"in terms of the money culture in Washington, she is an iconoclast"
2. a destroyer of images used in religious worship, in particular.
I didn't hear this before or understand what it meant at first. Then I started realizing that a lot of people that he is linked with that he calls to be in Kingdom Fellowship and is saying that they are "kingdom Christian's" practice in "protests(or at least that is what they look like to me...," or holding out signs in public...
Now this can take on many different forms and I don't want to paint activism as the same as an iconoclast, although I would classify an iconoclast likely as an activist.
Recently seeing some support towards activism online of other "kingdom Christians" I am troubled and a bit horrified... (involvement in protests, holding out signs along the road, voting) - the talk on MN is starting to scare me too... What are we telling people by these actions and conversations?
Where do we on the outside fit into all this when we are trying to build relationships with other Christians and aren't comfortable with these acts of activism?
Where is the desire to touch individuals rather than going at things with a political like style or reformed route of trying for social change?
And what is the Conservative Mennonite thoughts on these things?
Am I wrong to feel it has taken on a form excitement in fault finding, picking sides and letting our views be known rather than looking to and pointing to Christ, coupled with praying for His will to be done?
This is the defintion online:
i·con·o·clast
īˈkänəˌklast/
noun
noun: iconoclast; plural noun: iconoclasts
1. a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.
synonyms: critic, skeptic; More
heretic, unbeliever, dissident, dissenter, infidel;
rebel, renegade, mutineer
"in terms of the money culture in Washington, she is an iconoclast"
2. a destroyer of images used in religious worship, in particular.
I didn't hear this before or understand what it meant at first. Then I started realizing that a lot of people that he is linked with that he calls to be in Kingdom Fellowship and is saying that they are "kingdom Christian's" practice in "protests(or at least that is what they look like to me...," or holding out signs in public...
Now this can take on many different forms and I don't want to paint activism as the same as an iconoclast, although I would classify an iconoclast likely as an activist.
Recently seeing some support towards activism online of other "kingdom Christians" I am troubled and a bit horrified... (involvement in protests, holding out signs along the road, voting) - the talk on MN is starting to scare me too... What are we telling people by these actions and conversations?
Where do we on the outside fit into all this when we are trying to build relationships with other Christians and aren't comfortable with these acts of activism?
Where is the desire to touch individuals rather than going at things with a political like style or reformed route of trying for social change?
And what is the Conservative Mennonite thoughts on these things?
Am I wrong to feel it has taken on a form excitement in fault finding, picking sides and letting our views be known rather than looking to and pointing to Christ, coupled with praying for His will to be done?