The Invasion and the Light of the Community

We were all astounded at the amazing performance of the Invasion last night. It was possibly the most fun I've ever had watching my friends perform music. When they began to play perfectly "We Are the Champions" I realized that for the evening the Invasion really were the champions... Of the world.


My English class spent our last few sessions watching a movie called The Thin Blue Line. It was a strange documentary-type movie about a man who was convicted of murder and given the death penalty despite his innocence. The interesting thing about the trial was that all of the witnesses brought to the bench had very different accounts of the murder scene. Afterwards we watched an interview with the filmmaker and he had a quote about one of the major points of the film. He was talking about the idea of truth being either objective and unchanging or
subjective and different for each individual (This is a common debate in most of my philosophy courses). What he said was interesting because it described closely what I believe about truth. He said that he did not believe there was no such thing as a universal truth, but that universal truth is extremely difficult to find. I think he is correct about this. To take it into a theological context, I would say that John Wesley's idea about salvation being "according to the light you have recieved" is a perfect way to describe how human kind is able to encounter the truth about the God of our universe. Of course truth about God is out there, but it is a very difficult thing to grasp completely. We must all look towards God to find the truth that is in the world, but we should not attempt to grasp anything beyond our abilities or beyond the light we have received. Also we should not expect that everyone around us has received the same light that we have individually seen. We are all imperfect in numerous areas of our lives, but I believe we all have an area of our life where great amounts of light have been given. We should all embrace our light, and the light given to our communities. The more light our community shares, the closer to seeing completely the truth that God has created for us.