Ideology, or Kingdom?

     "What exactly is an ideology?" asks columnist Janie B. Cheaney.

     She answers, it is, "a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. Seems necessary for a coherent society. But every human invention is subject to decay."  

     Ideology can become:

>  Any slogan that fits on a bumper sticker

>  Any position that can be reduced to soundbites

>  Any view now isolated from real-life experience

>  Something our political opponents...never us...hold

     The Left is more "adept at sloganeering," she writes, but the Right "can be just as destructive when the idea consumes the person." 

     "Christ didn't preach an ideology," she notes. "He preached a kingdom and died to establish it. Lifestyles and politics are not the goal of the kingdom... 

     ...but the One 'through whom are all things, and through whom we exist.'" - 1 Corinthians 8:6. 

Like Father, Like Son 

     Remember Monday to Saturday: The One, in Views By the Sea. Direct from the Bible, New International Version. 

       Jimmy