August 11, 2010 – Acts 19:28 - 20:24

We see that cooler heads prevail in the arena of Christians vs. the ones that make the gods. How does that translate into what we were talking about. The cooler heads tell the crowds that there is a court of justice for those that say they are wronged by the Christians and that is where they should go. Stirring up the crowds into mobs is only going to hurt the city. What is the court of justice in today’s world of Christian beliefs vs. the Secular world. We see the crowds are growing into chaotic mobs where everyone is saying everything and nothing gets done except for more people are swept into the chaos. Where are the cooler heads these days. Where are the ones saying that living your life for material things, living with moral relativism as your ideal, being selfish is making our world unsafe and chaotic. And you cannot say that Christians are helping in the chaos. Besides the separation of all the Christian denominations you have those, and this is just the most recent example, that feel in order to fight the chaos they will have a large party around burning the Koran. How is that cooler heads. And cooler heads does not mean making or religion a private matter. Living life in a secular world and keeping our beliefs and religion for Sunday mornings only.

It does feel sometimes that things are spinning out of control in a direction that doesn’t appear to be the right one and we appear to be gaining speed, not slowing down. This scene with the crowds and the reasons for the chaos and the way it was diffused should teach us a lesson about our world today and what is happening. We need cooler heads to guide us. Where will they come from. The better question is with the speed and momentum we have, is the mob too big, will the cooler head be runned down, can the mob be silenced for just a minute in order to be instructed that what is happening is not benefiting anyone.