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John Howard Yoder on “Managing the World”

Tim T. points us to a great quote from John Howard Yoder:

“And might it be, if we could be freed from the compulsiveness of the vision of ourselves as the guardians of history, that we could receive again the gift of being able to see ourselves as participants in the loving nature of God as revealed in Christ? Perhaps the songs of the earliest church might restore this to us if the apostolic argument cannot. A church once freed from compulsiveness and from the urge to manage the world might then find ways and words to suggest as well to those outside its bounds the invitation to a servant stance in society.”
–John Howard Yoder

This certainly applies to the current same-sex marriage issue, as Tim explains:

There is a fundamental problem with the current marriage debate. The question is not whether marriage means this or that or whether the government should do this or that. The fundamental assumption that both sides share is that those who have a vision of an ideal society have the right and duty to take the reins of power and history and make that vision reality through the use of political power.

That assumption is wrong. History is God’s, not ours.

Tim is part of the Christian libertarian Facebook Group. You should be too!

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