We all know them......well I'm one of them but just to keep the conversation going......we all know at least one and probably many more people who just have this Jesus thing and act like it's everything. I first started noticing them in the late 1970s. They weren't any problem. All you had to do was kind of watch what you say because if you gave them a lead-in they would go on a bit on Jesus and the Bible. And then I became one.
To be accurate there's not quite as many of them around today. Christians tend to talk more about their church than about Jesus Himself....and they hardly ever mention the Bible in their political conversations.....but the original 'born again' types are still there....they'll always be there.
The general perception today is that Christians are more about conservative politics and Donald Trump than about the Gospel. Don't get me wrong, they won't ever deny the Gospel, and they'll talk about it if you absolutely want to, but it's not the driving force that it once was.
Well let me switch gears a little here and talk like we used to talk. You were probably a little bit bored to come across this web site. Maybe you saw my bumper sticker or picked up one of my web site pens that I like to leave on tables and benches. My proposition in this post is to challenge you to think about what God would be like if there really was a God. I kind of agree with you in that if He would be like what we see in American today then I don't think that I would be too interested either. I mean how great can a God really be if His own followers barely mention Him? No...we can't all be a Billy Graham but can all have the heart for the Gospel of a Billy Graham!
OK....everyone knows that the Bible speaks of a literal hell....but it's kind of like Roy Moore to conservatives today....talking about him makes them uncomfortable....then they get feelings of guilt for abandoning a good man after he was attacked and beat down.....and then they wind up blaming him for hurting Trump. Well we in the church don't want to talk about hell....it makes us uncomfortable....takes us off our game...so we just don't talk about it. But folks...if the Christian doesn't mention hell or eternal punishment....then logically speaking this whole "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved..." thing makes no sense. What are you saved from.....the eternal candidate Hillary Clinton.... wrinkles.... cellulite.... what?
If this is all that God can get out of His children....to go to church....and vote Republican....then there could not possibly be much to this Gospel stuff. Unless one is only into 'their best life now' or some other thing that a dozen other man-made self-help philosophies can get them.
Where's the power? Where's the evidence? There got to be some kind of noticeable power and logical evidence if there really is a God. If this Gospel can't even light a fire under believers then there can't really have been much there to begin with.
So to sum this up....if thoughts about their Savior do not dominate the Christian's thinking then he either cannot be much of a savior....or there must not have really been anything from which to be saved. Today is the day friend....and there may not be another. Humble yourself before the holiness of God and you will one of those that you formerly just wondered about.....and you will then praise God every day for it!
Note. I finished this post and thought about what I had written with...."Where's the evidence?" Thirty-six years ago while my wife was shopping in Penny's and I had nothing better to do than walk around the shopping center. I ambled into a Christian book store....not being familiar with any of the books....and walked out with Evidence That Demands A Verdict by well-known apologist Josh McDowell. Before I was done with that book it was torn in two so that I could have a part of it my back pocket at all times to pull out and read whenever! It's still available. If you are interested then get an older paperback.....so you can tear it two.
To be accurate there's not quite as many of them around today. Christians tend to talk more about their church than about Jesus Himself....and they hardly ever mention the Bible in their political conversations.....but the original 'born again' types are still there....they'll always be there.
The general perception today is that Christians are more about conservative politics and Donald Trump than about the Gospel. Don't get me wrong, they won't ever deny the Gospel, and they'll talk about it if you absolutely want to, but it's not the driving force that it once was.
Well let me switch gears a little here and talk like we used to talk. You were probably a little bit bored to come across this web site. Maybe you saw my bumper sticker or picked up one of my web site pens that I like to leave on tables and benches. My proposition in this post is to challenge you to think about what God would be like if there really was a God. I kind of agree with you in that if He would be like what we see in American today then I don't think that I would be too interested either. I mean how great can a God really be if His own followers barely mention Him? No...we can't all be a Billy Graham but can all have the heart for the Gospel of a Billy Graham!
OK....everyone knows that the Bible speaks of a literal hell....but it's kind of like Roy Moore to conservatives today....talking about him makes them uncomfortable....then they get feelings of guilt for abandoning a good man after he was attacked and beat down.....and then they wind up blaming him for hurting Trump. Well we in the church don't want to talk about hell....it makes us uncomfortable....takes us off our game...so we just don't talk about it. But folks...if the Christian doesn't mention hell or eternal punishment....then logically speaking this whole "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved..." thing makes no sense. What are you saved from.....the eternal candidate Hillary Clinton.... wrinkles.... cellulite.... what?
If this is all that God can get out of His children....to go to church....and vote Republican....then there could not possibly be much to this Gospel stuff. Unless one is only into 'their best life now' or some other thing that a dozen other man-made self-help philosophies can get them.
Where's the power? Where's the evidence? There got to be some kind of noticeable power and logical evidence if there really is a God. If this Gospel can't even light a fire under believers then there can't really have been much there to begin with.
So to sum this up....if thoughts about their Savior do not dominate the Christian's thinking then he either cannot be much of a savior....or there must not have really been anything from which to be saved. Today is the day friend....and there may not be another. Humble yourself before the holiness of God and you will one of those that you formerly just wondered about.....and you will then praise God every day for it!
Note. I finished this post and thought about what I had written with...."Where's the evidence?" Thirty-six years ago while my wife was shopping in Penny's and I had nothing better to do than walk around the shopping center. I ambled into a Christian book store....not being familiar with any of the books....and walked out with Evidence That Demands A Verdict by well-known apologist Josh McDowell. Before I was done with that book it was torn in two so that I could have a part of it my back pocket at all times to pull out and read whenever! It's still available. If you are interested then get an older paperback.....so you can tear it two.
