Monday’s thoughts
On Sunday, November 11th I want to have us take a look at what it means to be Christian and to be angry. Anger is something that should be discouraged and in the Christian faith it is discouraged. But Jesus was angry several times in his ministry. He became angry with the money changers.
Mel Wheatley once wrote, “Sometimes the absence of anger is obscene”. I think that is correct generally, but there is an art to being angry. In fact I would put it this way, “We ought to be angry, for God’s sake”.
You can tell the size of the person by the size of the thing that makes that person angry. We will want to consider what makes us angry and why. We will want to look at anger as a tool to mobilize ourselves to address it in creative (non-destructive) ways.
What should make us angry?
Poverty?
war?
abuse of children?
violence?
homelessness?
indifference?
How do we express our anger?
If you have thoughts on this subject write me at my email address charlesschuster@fcfumc.net (just click on the space to the left of this parenthesis) or click on the “comments” box below and others will get to read your response.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
