Staring at the train
wreck that is most of Western Christendom, it’s not hard to see one or
two points of comparison with Israel’s early days in the land of Canaan in
the time before God gave them a king. You know, that period the writer of Judges describes regularly with the phrase, “In those days there
was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes”.
Hmm. That’s pretty much the tale today. The
difference is that while Israel had no king, the Church has a living Head.
We are without Israel’s excuse.