We have to move from a model of command and control to one of openness and inclusiveness and to listen to a broader spectrum of voices than ever before.
From that moment on, Abraham endures separation from his family, hunger, war, surgery at an advanced age in a very sensitive area, the command to drive one son away while offering up another on an altar, amongst other tragedies.
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Since then, the craft has not confirmed receiving a command to point one of its transmitters to Earth, Tom Thorpe, the project manager, said.
The command to honor one's father and mother was not meant to tell kids to obey Mom and Dad but to oblige adult sons and daughters to care for their elderly parents.
The command to check one's privilege might feel ubiquitous now to those who spend too much of their days on social media, but in fact the phrase has experienced a slow burn.
Tertullian (c. 155-230 C.E)., for example, claimed that Jesus' command to love one's enemies was the "principal precept" of the Christian religion.
So, do many white people and white churches, even today, ignore the Gospel when it comes to race, and in fact to the command to love one's neighbor, whomever that neighbor might be?
Do churches, white and black, have "closed doors" when it comes to the Gospel command to "love one's neighbor as oneself?" For those Christians who choose to shut their doors and their hearts to some people, are we to believe and ascribe to the belief that there is still a large amount of theological bankruptcy infusing our society, coming straight from our churches?
The command to love one another in the here and now lives in uneasy tension with the promise of Jesus' return and the fulfillment of the Kingdom of God, in which all social relationships will be transformed in ways we can scarcely imagine.
