Quaero Sapientia: War, what is it good for.

In today's world of Christian religion there is a lot of arguments over a lot of things, women in ministry, gay rights, Calvinism, what translation to use, Post-modernity (one that I focus on a little to much), etc. As the church fights over all of these stupid little things we forget that these wars aren't much eternal value, if we start to place a persons salvation on whether or not they marry a woman or not we start to miss the point of the gospel (which is to love one another John 13:34-35). In our church culture we can start to war over these issues and fight for what ever side we take, but in doing so we can forget that there is a world out there, that there are people fighting a real war not one of these fake ones that we in the church have made up to satisfy our own desires. We can come up with all the theology we want to, but if it doesn't work in the world when a bullet is flying past your head then it isn't worth having. The last post on Richard Dahlstrom's blog reminded me that all the backbitting that goes on in the church is not a real war, this is a real war, real people, real family's, this is reality at it's worst and what people have to live with everyday.