How to sell liberal Christianity?

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8. Perhaps it a choice of what matters,

fund a media aspect or send the money to Somalia where folks seem in need. Handing out Bibles is fine, but how do they fill an empty belly or bandage a wound? Sometimes the best we can do is collect labels to help a Stateside concern. Our local food pantry, learned two weeks ago that it is going to cut back on use to twice a month, Sunday it was decided our Board would look into donating $400-$500, and to try to keep the item in the budget consistently. Some of us are still reeling, when the TeaPartyers...in less than a year's time food pantry use/need tripled. TRIPLED, still makes me dizzy.

Our Pastor works two jobs, Sunday and also a chaplain for a local hospice unit. Her husband also a minister, we get two for one wage, also teaches at a local college, is involved with community groups,AlaNon, etc. Plus their son is in college working on his degree.

My pastor in another State, had it a little easier, still his days were full. I know in SecondHarvest we averaged at least sixty a week, mostly families, and mostly one parent families or GAP(grandparents as parents). True it was cost by pound, and reduced to that of retail, but that's a lot of families each week. I know he attended every community meeting, because I attended them also-sadly we used to sit next to each other and made more than a few cynical sarcastic jokes and observations. He also seemed to have an endless less of hospital visits-darn people getting sick. STILL Mondays he was a Dad and a husband, no one felt angry about it.

Its the wrong group to put charismatic folks on a stage in front of a microphone to be televised. Its not the focus to tell someone what to think, what to believe nor how to live.
We seem to call it respect, because we sure don't want someone to make us their puppet either. For sure I've a couple Evangelical friends who gladly lecture me on Obama, on right to life and sexual orientations-the only reply I can make is to beware of false teachers, and remind them "let you who is without sin, cast that first stone."

Finally I'll use the word Bible. Seven levels to literary works, story-symbolic-metaphoric-and finally to Spiritually Linguistic. You use your own mind, your own understanding, not mine, not Hagee's, not Creflo Dollars, not even Joyce Meyer. Most of the characters used for a purpose seemed to always be flawed, the cracked vase that drips water along a path.

Now I'm giving you a great target to attack here, dunno perhaps there is this urge to be a martyr??? Still its my mind, my soul and my choice to believe. The person I choose to follow happened to attempt to teach to love each other, in fact the challenge was to love your enemies, used the term even the pagans love those who love them. No, the idea is NOT to heap coals on their heads, its to take a step back from Id/Ego and see commonunity we all share.

yep, made quite a target. But doubt you'll find a liberal Christian with the agenda of having a media ministry.