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People Perish From A Lack Of (World) Vision

Tony Woodlief reads the riot act to Christians who threatened to walk away from the relief charity World Vision over its change of policy regarding same-sex marriage, and those who threaten to walk away from World Vision because it retracted its pro-gay policy change. Here’s Woodlief: Those of you who were outraged by World Vision’s […]

Tony Woodlief reads the riot act to Christians who threatened to walk away from the relief charity World Vision over its change of policy regarding same-sex marriage, and those who threaten to walk away from World Vision because it retracted its pro-gay policy change. Here’s Woodlief:

Those of you who were outraged by World Vision’s state-pressured recognition of same-sex marriages, would you turn your backs on the little girl in danger of being sold into sex slavery in Thailand, the little boy in Haiti whose mother cannot feed him, for a point of dogmatic purity in an organization which is not the Church?

Do you demand the same purity of the sports teams you root for, of the stores where you buy your comfortable clothes, of the grocery stores where you buy your steaks?

Do you think the Church so weak that it needs affirmation from the Human Resources department of World Vision to maintain what was instituted by God?

And here he is laying into the other side:

And to those of you who bathe yourselves in righteous indignation at World Vision’s reversal, who believe that your personal revelations outweigh centuries of Church tradition and teaching, who haven’t the slightest charity towards your brothers and sisters, casting our refusal to embrace your beliefs as evidence of hatred in our hearts—and thereby, conveniently and cheaply, a superior love within your own—shame on you.

“Therefore let us not judge one another anymore,” writes the apostle Paul, “but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.”

You lay down stumbling blocks at every turn. You do it despite believing that any building with a cross and a preacher is a church, which means that you have the freedom to start whatever churches you like, and establish whatever ceremonies you choose, and call these marriages, and declare that God smiles on them. Your beliefs give you the freedom to worship God however you see fit, but this does not content you, because you need the rest of Christendom to agree with you. You would make your brother choke down the idol’s food, and call him unchristian if he does not. You derive your righteousness from pointing out the mote in his eye.

There’s more; read the whole thing. This is wisdom that spares no one.

UPDATE: I appreciate the distinction several of you make in the comments section, namely that ceasing support of World Vision is not the same thing as ceasing support of the poor. That is, redirecting one’s tithe is not the same thing as ceasing to tithe.

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