and be on your guard

Perhaps ridiculous this revisionism, but meant for capturing thoughts as they occur; small print that the posting thereof may not be anywhere near the actual occurence. But as of the day, pondering this, the embracing of those that hate you for the purpose of witnessing.

Call it the Willow Creek Way, perhaps: inviting the world, embracing the world in attempts to turn evil around for good. Lord uses liar's mechanisms for salvation all the time. The whole crucifixion is liar's way of killing Savior, not knowing the killing was his very doom. Check out the irony behind Esther, for another. Great faith, I suppose, in believing you have what it takes to take on liar and the world and twist them toward the light. Great faith, or ignorance -- ignorance of the fact that liar and the world often set that trap themselves, a slippery slope of embracing becoming complete envelopment. Watch those steps, brother. Watch them very carefully.