Mike Yaconelli Dies in Truck Accident

Noted author and youth minister, Mike Yaconelli has returned home as reported by Christianity Today.

An interesting article that Yaconelli wrote back in July concerning fundamental Christians can be found here. I find his take interesting:

...what the fundamentalists have been guilty of, more than anything else, is a monumental waste of time. Fundamentalists, because of their obsession with things that don't matter [drinking, dancing, smoking, swearing], have, in effect, made the Gospel irrelevant. . .It makes one wonder if the fundamentalists haven't done what they have accused the liberals of doing. . .eliminated the absolutes.

I would agree in so much that wrong headed focus on behavior for the sake of conformity is not good: action based on groupthink and not "godthink" skirts closely to idolatry--it worships the man and not the God. But I wonder if, perhaps, we could misconstrue Yaconelli's message. If our lives really are transformed by Christ, it is sensible that our behaviors and choices would reflect Christ transformation.

We have freedom in Christ to do many different things, but not all things are profitable.

(cap tip to Boar's Head Tavern)