Time With Ellis

At lunch the other day we started discussing the post-modern views and life style. I am going to attempt my best to write these ideas out but I am still grappling with them myself so it might not come across every clear. The post modern priorities are fun and freedom so whatever we do the focus is to make sure that we are having fun and freedom or at least working towards that. You eliminate all things (a hard marriage, kids, hard job, etc)in order to have these. We are working as institutions and people to make all people equal in all ways over the world. We have this mindset of demanding equality for all people because it's all of their rights. When Ellis told me that this was wrong I immediately got so defensive and challenged him on how that could contradict the gospel.
He looked me dead in the eye and said "Well because child, we do not have any rights. Our rights are death and hell."
I was so quieted that I could not say anything but tears welled in my eyes within 30 seconds. I walked away from there feeling like I think I just got the gospel for the first time ever. When I asked Ellis how you to fight for the poor then and what that is supposed to look like if I thought before it was meant to be demanding equality. He said that the Bible tells us to fight for justice certainly but we do not demand our "rights" to God. So we fight for a man to be freed from slavery, we fight for homosexuals to not be outcast or considered unworthy, we fight for people to eat 3 meals a day but we do NOT demand it because it is their as a human being to eat 3 meals a day. We don't have that right. Our right is to burn in hell. But we do live presently in grace and we live out of that grace to fight for justice for those in need and without a voice.
We talked about homosexuals too and I had a lot of questions for him about that. He had so much wisdom to offer about how to love them and live in community with them without approving of that lifestyle. He talked about how one of his best friends came out as a transsexual years ago and how he and one other man were the only ones who continued to keep up their friendships with him. When his friends asked him: "How do you continue to live in community with him and be the renown Christian that you are?" he responded with: "Oh well I guess that would mean then that I shouldn't talk to you anymore at all either because you gossip like no one I know.". Great wisdom...
Another good quote by him: "When you are angry against the injustice in the world, God is angry with you against the devil. You aren't angry that you don't get your rights. you are angry at the distortion of God's truth."