Mature Believers
Greetings. “ Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ” BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (from Julius Caesar , spoken by Marc Antony) Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. Mature believers learn to listen well, * recognizing cultural and philosophical differences * reserving judgment, requiring their own minds to demand evidence rather than forming opinions based on habit, hearsay, and one's own cultural assumptions * being at peace with God from regular Scripture meditation and prayer, living the truth that the proper attention to the relationship with God is essential to being able to relate accurately and empathetically in love with another person. * Respect tradition of reason ascending from ancient times, up to and through the tradition of reason permeating and mat...