The other day a colleague shared an experience he had recently endured that exposed him to, as he called it, a moral dilemma. His solution was, let’s just say, creative, but it did get me to thinking— it always does...
I wonder if all the "
dilemmas
" we endure, are really that, dilemmas, you know, moments to "phone a friend named Solomon.... or are they just difficult because we lack the mechanism and practice for solving them biblically. Hmm, now there's a novel idea, biblically generated principles leading to practical applications. Someone should write this down...
As difficult as our current culture is to navigate, I would be hard pressed to find a more challenging environment than the situations presented to the
Apostle Paul
from the church in Corinth. Their many battles with life in the fast lane of Divorce, remarriage, litigation, incest and the like made them a real challenge for the Apostle to sort it all out and provide them with a way off the horns of their dilemmas. But difficult or not, he did it and so can we. It's wisdom, after all, that we lack, and courage to apply its principles, we so easily forfeit. So, let's set aside the the moral dilemmas often presented to our school kids; namely the five people stuck in the life-raft with provisions for only four, and discuss several very real scenarios.
- A student in a Christian school is found to be having sex with another student resulting in a pregnancy and bringing to bear the couple's expulsion from the school. There is no dilemma here; the school acted correctly, within its policies and guidelines, offered the two an opportunity to repent and re-apply to school the following year. Oh, the outrage, the lack of grace, and the absence of love demonstrated to the students by the governing board. Really? Yep, I was there.
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