Step Away From The Stones
I am reading a book, “Everybody’s Normal Till You Get To Know Them” by John Ortberg. Yeah. Cool title! He starts out with everybody’s weird. Well news flash! I always knew that. I call my weird being “unique”. 🤣 I digress… Chapter 5 is based on the woman caught in the act of adultery in John 8:3-7. But the sentence that pricked my heart was on page 95. “Why do churches produce so many stone throwers?” Back in the Old Testament, the law (in Leviticus and Deuteronomy), the punishment for sins was to throw stones at the sinner until they were dead. Commit adultery - stone them. Worship another god - stone them. Rebellious child - stone them. Will not heed the priest, has cursed God, or built idols - dead, dead, and, you guessed it D E A D. I’m sure if we were still under the law a few of us would not have made it this far. So why am I bringing this up now? Weeeellllllll. Here’s the thing. We’re still throwing stones. At the very least we’ve ...