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Over the Christmas holidays a friend asked me to go to a movie. I joked with him that two guys in a theater together might be perceived as “gay.”
In the midst of what we consider to be a great transformation of cultural awareness in the United States of America, we are also simultaneously becoming more cautious, provincial and suspicious. At times I wonder if I could take my fifteen-year-old granddaughter out to dinner without people musing whether it’s an episode of Law and Order: SVU.
And then there’s the issue that for eighteen years I have been traveling with a vibrant woman who is talented, plays music and is a great business partner, but I still have people asking if we’re married. How many married people do you know who make music together? There’s a difference between two turtle doves in a nest and a pair of eagles, soaring high.
This led me to think about the dilemma faced by Jesus in the Good Book, when he decided to send his friends and disciples out two by two. How controversial that must have been.
- Could he send two guys together without everybody thinking they were Greek homosexuals?
- How about a man and woman, without everybody speculating on their copulating?
- Check this one out–could two women go out in that male-dominated society and make an impact for his Kingdom Movement?
- One black, one white?
- How about Jew and Gentile?
- And what would happen if you mixed a Samaritan in there, whom, it seemed, everybody hated?
Yes, the decision to send people out two by two–coupling them–was probably one of the more radical propositions Jesus ever initiated.
Because even though we proclaim that our world needs more good news, human beings are actually drawn to bad news, even as they insist how ugly it is, and then whisper the gossip to every living soul they meet.
So this I know:
- Do what works.
- Don’t expect it to be accepted.
- Get the chip off your shoulder and refuse to be defensive.
- Keep doing it … and bear fruit.
America will be a much better country when we get out of our national funk of abiding arrogance … and crippling fear.
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