This question has been plaguing my mind for the last couple of days and it almost seems impossible to answer unless it possess some kind of paradoxical truth. Something I am inclined to believe. The question is this:

How can one stand for truth and virtue while living a life full of mercy, grace, and forgiveness?

I saw that the famous pastor Bill Hybels calls himself a progressive now on the back of Jim Wallis' new book "the great awakening." No progressive stand for a much more relative approach to truth. Progressives are all about everyone being equal and that no one is better than anyone else. This really does away with absolute truth, which seems like a necessary belief for a pastor. I am generalizing to keep the blog short, but it seems that many modern day christians have found a way to answer my big question like Shane Claiborne, Jim Wallis, and now Bill Hybles, or have they?

This is the question going through my head and I will let everyone know when I find the answer, cuz then all the world's problems will pretty much be done away with.

-Joshua