Jesus said, "'I have chosen you out of the world.'" John 5:19 (NRSV)
What does it mean to come out of the world?
Fundamentalists will tell you it's all about sex - coming out of the Whore of Babylon and coming out of Sodom.
This betrays their deep-seated phobias about sex.
And it is wrong!
Coming out of the world means denouncing the ways of the world - i.e. the brutality and materialism of our corporate masters, the worship of money and status, the corruption and evil of the world.
God calls us out of this dog-eat-dog world of violence and domination in order to teach us the ways of Love.
And then He sends us back into the world as agents of Love.
[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.]
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