be less conservative

«The value of persistence comes not from stubbornly clinging to the past. It comes from a vision of the future that’s so compelling you would give almost anything to make it real.» Steve Pavlina
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/self-discipline-persistence/

Envision what ypu want to achieve and see what you need to change – it’s not the momentum that’s keeping you conservative, it’s your mindset.

I was way too conservative because I allowed my church to define my politics. I had become bigoted and bad. I forgot that the bible doesn’t take political sides. I thought that i would only live the good life if i did everything my church told me to do.

• always ask ‘where is it written’. way too often I just took something to be fact without really checking it out for myself.
• there’s more than one way to do just about anything when it comes to the christian faith.
• the bible doesn’t take sides on as many things as people think.
• jesus was neither republican or democrat, liberal or conservative, and he’d likely be appalled by many of the things each of those groups stand for.

• it’s not good to throw it all away… but you’ll learn that in time anyway. I just recommend keeping that time fairly short. The more time you spend wondering what goes and what stays about your beliefs, the more anxious you’ll get.
• don’t become a liberal just for the sake of doing so. you’d be trading one bad ideology for another.
• don’t just find a middle ground, there is no such thing. find a higher ground.
• don’t lord your new beliefs over anyone else. that’s bigotry, thats what your leaving behind.
• don’t do it because its popular. it’s not.
• if christianity is at your core, remember that anything worth believing will never be based on a single verse. don’t let anyone try to convince you of something based on a single verse. everything worth believing will go all throughout the bible.

If someone needs confronting, confront them. just, WHAT does that word ‘needs’ mean to you or I?