http://www.christiantoday.com/article/rick.warren.six.worldviews.youre.competing.against/13420.html

Rick Warren has staked out six world views he thinks Christians are confronted with on a regular basis. You will find the link above to the Christianity Today article. What seems entirely lacking in these six is a reference to what can only called myopic parochialism, or put another way racism. I think that sort of tribalism we are confronted with over and over again. One way it manifests itself even within the church is the disconnect when I say that American Christian’s first obligation is to their fellow Christians anywhere and everywhere regardless of race or nationality etc. not to their fellow Americans simply because they are Americans. I would not have to make this point on one of my visits to African American Churches– they understand personally what I am talking about without debate or rebuttal.

Let me be clear– there is a healthy kind of patriotism where one loves one’s nation and wishes it well and works for its good. There is another kind of patriotism that no Christian should endorse— it is ‘my country always right, never wrong’, or even ‘my country is the only God blessed country on the world’ or even my country comes first, my faith second’ and so on.

Think on these things.

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