Guelph Vineyard Church

What to test? Part 2: Finding Our Way In A Post-Truth Era Last Sunday we started a really good conversation about what we think of when we we think of the word "test". We focused in on how testing plays a role in our spiritual life, both in how, who and what we test, and how in turn we are tested. This week we're going to get practical, because testing must be practical in order for it to be a helpful test at all.The book of Judges is my least favourite book in the Bible. I probably shouldn't admit that, but I just did. It's full of sketchy behaviour by liars, thieves, and charlatans… and some of them are even Israel's "leaders". Yet the final sentence of the book is also one of the most striking in the scriptures: "In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes."Living in what sociologists are increasingly referring to as a "post-truth era" (i.e. "you do your truth, I'll do mine"), testing