Interesting Short Read for Christians

[Gavin Allan]

What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff?

This radical Christian's ministry for the poor, The Simple Way, has gotten him in some trouble with his fellow Evangelicals. We asked him to address those who don't believe.

 

[Tom Schindler]

Interesting. Too many Christians are quick to say " you are going to go to he'll for this".



They make God sound like some evil person.



I have some other beliefs about God that go against the general grain of Christians, but I am not going there.





Tom

 

[Gavin Allan]

Maybe they are "Christians in Name Only"...

 

[H D]

Jesus taught that no sin is any greater than another. Therefore, I will never tell somebody they will be in hell for any sinful act.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Sadly most forms of Christianity and their followers have some judmentalism.



The whole "the only way to salvation..." dogma is the ultimate form of judgement.



TJR

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Gavin,



I just read the article.



Makes me glad to be a Mennonite. For us, we believe in service and love to our neighbor and through such we show them the power of our Lord.



TJR

 

[H D]

Here's what really stuck out to me, for those that won't actually read the article:

I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives.

...too often all the church has done is promise the world that there is life after death and use it as a ticket to ignore the hells around us. I am convinced that the Christian Gospel has as much to do with this life as the next, and that the message of that Gospel is not just about going up when we die but about bringing God's Kingdom down.

...Jesus says to the religious elite who looked down on everybody else: "The tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the Kingdom ahead of you."

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.