cutting edge

Sunday April 20th, Acts 7: 55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56 "Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." 57 At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, 58 dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. New realities are often seen as a threat to entrenched orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is not bad, it is the keel in the water that keeps the church from being blown off course by every little change. Sometimes however it can prevent the winds of change from taking the church in along the path of relevance. Today on the other hand orthodoxy helps keep part of the church from being blown off into the stormy waters of fundamentalism. It is when it closes the door on possibility and clings to absolutes that it goes astray. Good theology is always on the cutting edge between orthodoxy and blasphemy.