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July 14, 2008 | 11:41 am

Connecting churches more difficult than dividing Palestine, pastor says

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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“I would rather be dividing land in Palestine,” the Rev. Mark Brewer of Bel Air Presbyterian said Sunday night, “than getting churches to work together.”

Brewer is definitely a good Presbyterian, a philo-Semite struggling with the liberalization of his denomination. He’s also my pastor, and has been for the past eight years. And, on the above statement, I think he’s right. Look at how much trouble the Church of England is having. Now, compare that to how little Great Britain had to deal with when it washed its hands of Palestine (and Iraq and India) without actually helping reconcile new neighbors.

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You picked a mighty strange link to back up the ‘philo-semite’ reference, unless you were highlighting the ‘liberalization’ of the term ‘semite’ to mean Arabs. The document was a bait-and-switch, with a preliminary draft extended to reflect some understanding of Israel’s position to prehaps make up for the biases of the past, and the revised document belying its title sunstituted without warning or consultation with Jewish representatives.

The reference to the British was actually quite witty, as Great Britain acted as a duplicitous, amoral oaf in its regions of responsibility, instituting changes that would ensure eternal enmity and bloodshed, pulling defeat and conflict from the jaws of victory and peace.

My unsolicited advice to your pastor is to try to transcend powerful interest groups, political agendas, and even self-interest and ascertain the will of God in making those decisions that must be made. Fortunately, God left a written record of his will that can be referenced. Look at the mess caused by dividing the land in Palestine against God’s expressed wishes.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/14/08 at 5:01 pm

Actually, I chose that link to show that some leaders in the Presbyterian denomination aren’t as popular right now with the Jewish community.

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 7/14/08 at 5:18 pm

Oops, missed that one.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/15/08 at 1:26 am

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