faith...electives and requirements

Brian McLaren last year at the Off the Map conference in Seattle was talking about the generous life and getting past dualism. It was a great talk. At the end during the Q and A someone accused Brian of always swinging the pendulum to far into generosity. If my memory serves me, to paraphrase Brian, he said,

" Generosity is orthodoxy, if you aren't generous you aren't orthodox, because you can't separate a practice of love from the truth about God. I actually don't see them as being separated. I don't actually see orthodoxy and generosity as being polarization. When you go further towards each extreme of left and right you loose generosity on either extreme, and less orthodoxy."

"We've inherited a tradition that says we can get an A in orthodoxy by having the right belief, and F in orthopraxy, but you still pass because orthopraxy is an elective course and orthodoxy is a required course."

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Gosh, I deal with this among a few folks daily. Folks have been sold a "belief system" and truly believe that they are being about the things Jesus was about simply on belief. They call this the "Gospel". It's not.

Thanks for the post. Good to hear from you brother!