In honor of the political cycle this series will explore the way a Christian should act within modern American society.
2 Corinthians 8:21 –“
For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of men.”
In the hot and airless chambers of Philadelphia a group of men wrestled with “doing right” to the satisfaction of both their God and their fellow and future citizens. As they all arrived with their own vision of what a new nation should be they argued, they got mad, they schemed, and they stalked out seeking to abandon the entire process! Yet, the larger than they were issues kept drawing them back, urged compromise and the fashioning a single vision all could come to an agreement over.
Building consensus in church, home or society is never easy as the Apostle Paul notes in this text. It takes effort, willingness to accept we might not always be right in every issue, and the willingness to become humble so the individual – with all their rights and privileges – is consumed in something larger which, in this case of the founding of a new nation, sought the balance between the demanding of rights and the accepting of responsibilities equally.
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