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<h3><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-weight:normal'>Here’s something I really liked from Dale’s
BlogVille. I know it represents my thoughts on the issue of local
politics. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<h3><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-weight:normal'>Michael Metzler <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<h3><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<h3><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The
Unanswerable Question for Bill London<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>posted on Tuesday, 08 November, 2005 12:35 PM by <a
href="http://right-mind.us/user/Profile.aspx?UserID=2100"
id="_ctl0__ctl0__ctl0__ctl0__ctl6__ctl0_Entry__ctl0_AuthorLink">dmcourtn</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I was
at the NSA Disputatio when Bill London spoke to the NSA students. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Bill was
hauling out his well-worn slogan: you all are a political organization. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So during
the question and answer period, I got to ask a question of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Bill,
if <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType>
is a political organization with political desires to take over <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, why did one of
our own congregants who was on the City Council (John Guyer) resign and
leave to help start a church plant in another State?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>By your
logic, he had one of the most coveted political positions in all of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>: a City Council seat.
Yet he walked away from it in order to plant a church in another State. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Wouldn't
that tell you where our priorities actually lie: planting churches over
planting politicians.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>He hemmed
and hawed but gave no answer -- for there is no answer he could give consistent
with his framework. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But the
question remains for all to see the truth of the matter. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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