Nathan W. Bingham

I'm trying to figure out whether we should serve coffee in the North X. And it would be funny if it wasn't so horrific.

It's the wrong thing.

The Christian knows that there are differences among the things that we are speaking about, and that you have to do a kind of theological triage.

I don't know if any of us in the room have worked in an ER before.

I never have, but I know what triage is, and I know what they do.

I've watched enough movies where somebody is rushed into an emergency room.

The person with the stubbed toe, though it's awful they have a stubbed toe, and I'm

Sorry if you have a stubbed toe this morning.

That's important.

But it's not quite as important as the man who has his head cracked open and his brain matter is falling out.

You don't have the whole hospital descend upon the man with the stubbed toe.

You triage.

This is of importance, of greater importance.

We do this all the time.

You do this as parents with your children.

Everything can't be a fight with your children.

You have to decide.

Is this something we need to address?

Is this something we don't?

You do this with your friends or otherwise you won't have that friend anymore if everything you got to call them on.