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“Is Jesus’ vision that we live as disconnected individuals who use everything, including him, to meet our personal needs?”

A thought by Darren Whitehead and Jon Tyson (2011-07-19) from their book, Rumors of God: Experience the Kind of Faith You´ve Only Heard About (Kindle Location 1529). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

I am having some problems with some of the issues that we as CHRIST followers champion.  We came and founded this country on religious freedom but we are now it seems on the side of restricting people from coming to the USA.  Something about that they might take jobs away from us.

I heard someone say that our poverty level here would be the middle class in Europe.  That’s not even talking about some of the countries in Africa.  It is no wonder that the world wants to come here.  Our poverty level is a major step up to the rest of the world.  

Now I do appreciate the fact that the Evangelical world has gotten the vision to help those in need in a greater measure but we may have a problem with them sitting next to us in church.  I will give and I will go but I don’t want them coming here.

Now the truth is if the church were taking care of the widow, the poor, the immigrant, the prisoner as God commanded us to do then we wouldn’t need the government to do it.  If we gave our tithe as God challenged us to do we wouldn’t need such high taxes.  The government too many times does what Christ wanted the church to do and we as Christians gripe about them doing it.   

Again I am saying that I am having some problems with some of the self-centered issues that the Christian world champions and I’m afraid that also may be true of Christ.

I don’t like being negative.  I really don’t but I do have a burden for us to be the Christians that Christ envisioned us to be.  And it breaks my heart some of the things that we champion under the guise of being Christ followers.   No way does any gay want to be a Christian.  No way does any woman who ever had an abortion want to be a Christian.  No way does a Muslim want to be a Christian.  Granted there are some major issues there but still God loves them and wants them to have a personal relationship with Him.  And it starts with how we as His followers reach out to them in love not hate. 

Well my therapy session is over. 

So why don’t we start championing the things that Christ would champion?  
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