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The Stray Dog Club
By John Ingrisano and Sponsored by R.J. Maves Photography of Ellison Bay
Nov 23, 2011 - 8:58:51 AM
As many of you know, I have a special place in my heart for stray dogs, people like Chicago Mike, who is doing time in federal prison, or Gary, the married, hard-drinking womanizer. But I also include on that list my friends who have not seen the political light (as in: they don’t see it my way), atheists, agnostics … even a few Muslims. Worst of all, I have family and a few friends who are – gasp, gasp – homosexuals … and darn nice folks they are, by the way. For this (and more), I have on occasion be roundly criticized for not doing my own separating of the sheep from the goats. Bummer. Yes, I guess I am a Christian, but more to the point, I attempt to be a follower of Christ. (This can be a big difference.) I am a seeking sheep (bah, bah, not bah, humbug), but I am also a part-time goat. Mixing my metaphors, I guess that also makes me something of a stray dog, both to dogmatic “Christians” and sneerful nonbelievers. But remember that Christ spent a lot of time with those stray dogs, eating and drinking with tax collectors, lawyers (sorry, son), prostitutes, etc. My point: (1) Christ admonished us to love one another; (2) we cannot help the stray dogs in our lives if we do not talk to them; and (3) leave the separating of the sheep and the goats to God. “Exclusiveness and exclusions always result from making a false idol of purity. Pharisaism, in fact, is the result of a perverted passion for theological purity just as ethnic cleansing is for racial purity.” - Os Guinness The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life I guess my way of thinking is that I have enough on my plate to try to change myself and find my own salvation, so I should just mind my own business and not try to fix and find fault with everybody else. It’s God’s job to judge, not ours. God bless you, even if you are not a stray dog. John R.
Ingrisano 209 Church
Street Algoma, WI
54201 (920)
559-3722 www.DailyConnections.net
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