This statement of Jesus to Bartimaeus, the blind beggar, is placed by Mark right before the narrative about Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem and his suffering and death. One needs to see, Mark suggests, to have vision, to grasp what God has done, is doing, and will do in and through the death and resurrection of Jesus. We are all blinded by the limited love and self-centered culture around us in which we are immersed.
"Your faith has saved
you...." Mark is teaching us that we need to keep our eyes of Christ. We
need to see that our life is a journey (the way), and the good Lord walks with
us day by day if we but have eyes to see 
and ears to hear. He is the central
focus of our faith.
At this time our Church is troubled by a decision of faith made at last summer's General Convention to affirm the consecration of the Bishop-elect of the Diocese of New Hampshire. Some believe this decision contrary to Scripture and immoral because the Bishop-elect, Gene Robinson, who was divorced many years ago, is now living in a long-term committed relationship with a man. I am not going to comment on the specific Scriptural passages which speak for or against this at this moment, but rather on the way Scripture nurtures our faith, and the way we should act as faith-filled disciples of the risen Lord.
The central focus of our faith is on Christ, not the words printed in the Bible. The Bible is the inspired mirror into which we look to see how God acted then with our ancestors in faith and the first disciples of Jesus so we can understand how God is acting in our lives now in and through the Spirit of the risen Lord. We do not, in other words, worship a book, the Bible. We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, but this means the Bible shows us about the meaning of THE "Word of God" who became flesh and lived among us, as John's Gospel stresses (Ch 1.) The Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament) tell us about the gradual revelation of the nature and purposes of God which the Hebrew people came to understand in the course of their history. They saw God (Yahweh) as their "rock" and their "fortress" (Ps 18:2), their "shepherd" who guides them (Ps 23:1), and the one who teaches them through the Torah and the Prophets the path of life in which to walk day by day (Ps 32:9). "Blessed are those...who walk in His ways" (Ps 119:3)
The New Testament gives us "the revelation of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" as Paul teaches us (2 Cor 4:5-6). Paul also tells us we are only able to see the full light of God's love and purpose for humanity in part. To use the King James translation, he says: "For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known" (1 Cor 13:12). The RSV translation puts it: "Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then....." We have only partial knowledge of God's purposes, even with the mirror of Scripture, and when we start using Scriptural passages as clubs to beat our point of view over the heads of those who do not see as we see, we are truly blind to the full reality of faith, we are no longer loving one another as Christ has loved us (Jn 13:34).
I am not trying to club you with Biblical quotes, rather, whether or not persons of the same gender living together in faithful committed love relationships can be faithful to God's call to them as disciples is not the central focus of our faith and we may well be seeing through "a glass darkly". The central focus is on Christ and how His words and deeds guide us on our own personal journey, our path through life. When people have said they are troubled by the decision of General Convention, I continue to ask them: What does this have to do with your personal relationship with Christ? That's our central focus and question. The wise old Rabbi, Gamaliel, advised the Sanhedrin concerning whether or not to persecute Christians: if "this movement of theirs is of human origin it will break up of its own accord; but if it does in fact come from God you will be unable to destroy them. Take care not to find yourselves fighting against God" (Acts 5:38-39).
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