She was urging me to heed the call of urban ministry. For her, as with many Christians, scripture quotations are sometimes disjointed, severed from their original context, tailored to fit the need of the debate at hand. God don't like vacillation, he don't like lukewarm behavior. On this point my grandmother and I were in complete agreement. For Christians, there's a host of things that God don't like, areas not covered by the rudimentary Ten Commandments and just as dangerous as the Seven Deadly Sins.
Judgment is one example.
Jesus hisself warns that the standards we use to judge other people are the ones that will be used in judgment against us. We have so much work to do cleaning out our own garbage, we don't have time to fiddle with the trash of others. Yet the things we complain most about in others are those which we find most repugnant in ourselves. If it is true, as the country saints say, that God don't like ugly, it's also true that She hates banal. Just because stupidity ain't on the list of sins don't mean God thinks stupidity's okay.