Eric's thoughts

One of my favorite (and most challenging) teaching series that we have ever done for high school students was a series we did this past fall, in which we titled "Grey". In this series we talked about what many consider to be biblical gray areas (even the spelling of grey seems to be a gray area). Things like cussing, alcohol, and tatoos, to name a few.

A verse that I have heard quoted many times in reference to gray areas is 1 Thessalonians 5:22, "Abstain from every form of evil." In other words, a traditional take has been, as a Christian I am not to give any hint of wrong doing. Well, I guess that sums it up. Or does it?

Check out respected Biblical scholar, Dan Wallace's, take on that verse in context.

http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2008/02/19/avoid-every-appearance-of-evil/#more-598