During the last week I seem to have touched on what some readers would feel is a no go area in regards to "The great Commission". Viewing numbers have sky rocketed (the blog has been number 1 for a week on www.blog.co.uk since I started discussing it) and emails and comments have heated up.

Over a year ago I touched on what turned out to be another sacred subject when I queried where the line was drawn between thinking the Bible was inspired by God and taking everything totally literally. It got to the place that I was warned to stop moderating the discussion group I was running that was exploring the topic (which I did so as not to cause conflict and dissension at the time).

So sex, drugs and rock and roll appear no longer so taboo, but wondering about Biblical certainty, the role of the church, or how we assume certain interpretations of scripture (such as the Great Commission) is taboo. I think this is one of the great dangers of Fundamentalism, whether Muslim, Hindu or Christian, is the intolerance of questioning and doubt. The writer I have read and studied the most is Eric Blair (better known as George Orwell)and I have become more convinced that as Evangelical Christians our faith system is more closely aligned with Orwell's Doublethink then we care to admit.

I do struggle with doubt and am wrestling a lot with the assumptions I have carried for most of my Christian life. I think like many believers I committed my life to Christ in an emotional way at a very low time in my life. After that I went to church and took as fact everything I was told and saw. On top of that I read lots of recommended books by more mature Christians and took what I read as gospel as well. Until this season in my life I never thought, wrestled or questioned I just did.

Well now I am thinking through, reading more widely, and starting perhaps to see some large flaws and contradictions in my faith that I was to blinkered to see before. I don't want to be a Double-thinker.