I love Paul Tripp! In this article he addresses an issue that many
today simply prefer to ignore. Anger is a Kingdom calling!
Here are a few extracts of his very balanced article.
I took the liberty to highlight portions for emphasis.
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"God calls you to be good, and he calls you to be angry at the same time."
"...those of us who have been called to represent the character and call of God
in local church ministry need to pray that we would be righteously angry.
We must pray that a holy zeal for what is right and good would so fill our hearts
that the evils greeting us daily would not be okay with us.
We must pray that we would be angry in this way until there is no reason to be angry
anymore. And we must be vigilant, looking for every opportunity to express the righteous
indignation of justice, mercy, wisdom, grace, compassion, patience, perseverance, and love.
We must be agitated and restless until his kingdom has finally come and his will is finally
being done on earth as it is in heaven. For the sake of God's honor and his kingdom...
We must determine to be good and angry at the same time."
"Injustice must not, cannot be okay with us. The immorality of the culture around us
must not, cannot be okay with us. The deceit of the atheistic worldview---the philosophical
paradigm of many culture-shaping institutions---must not, cannot be okay with us.
Righteous anger should yank us out of selfish passivity. Righteous anger should call us
to join God's revolution of grace. It should propel us to do anything we can to lift the load
of people's suffering, through the zealous ministry of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and to bring
them into the freedom of God's truth."
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2011/11/27/anger-is-a-calling/
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