A tale is recounted in my mind recently where a man is asked if people should pay taxes to the authority. The man asks for a coin, and asks whose face is on it. The people respond with the name of the current political leader and the man replies, "Give to the Leader what is his..."
A slightly different take: If belonging is denoted by what face is on something, and we presume that man is made in the image of God, what does this say about what we belong to and should be given to?
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I'll never hear that story the same again, bro. Good thought. Could one also tie in the idea of the coin having two sides; perhaps to say we are in the world, but not of it or that we can be both a son of man and a son of God?
Hey I noticed you have links to friends' blogs on the side of your blog. Mine is natefish.blogspot.com (trying to move away from MySpace), but I don't know how to add those links as friends. Did you just eit links somehow?
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