Parakalein

Malachi the prophet cried out on God's behalf, "Where is the respect due me"

Peter said, "Show proper respect to everyone" (I Peter 1:17).

What we need today is not another truth, or another twist of the truth.  What we need toad is refreshing honesty.  Like cool lemonade on a hot day it would be refreshing in the midst of all the hot issue facing pour world for someone to just be honest and drop the agenda's and attributions that foster war in in the name of peace and community forebear.

Honesty that is not self serving nor self effacing but honesty that is open and welcoming to all truths.

What if all religions would see value and truth in each other by letting go of truths that are self serving and self propagating.  Expanding my kingdom at the expense of others is the old form of kingdom building.  The new form of king-doming building is broadening though respectfulness the parameters of the kingdom to include all people.  The Kingdom of Heave is here and now if we live by the rules of heaven.

Honesty with respectfulness is like Godliness with contentment, it provides great gain.  To achieve it we have to give up our "right faith beliefs" and embrace the faith beliefs of all people.

To do as Peter suggests, "show proper respect to all people".  Perhaps this is the respect due to God to respect all God's people whatever their particular belief system is.

This is not Tolerance, or universalism or pluralism this is "Religious respectfulness" a call to honesty at the deepest level where true Spirit is present in all of us.