Self-Righteousness
If the spirit of Christ is moving you towards self-righteousness and intolerance, perhaps it's not Christ that is moving you at all. Perhaps it is for your own ego and not to glorify God.
Does Jesus really want our minds to be so narrowed by his word that we lose respect for others?
When we recite The Apostles Creed, we state:
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.
Note: catholic refers to the universal church and not the Roman Catholic chuch.. just in case you were wondering.
If we truly believe in the forgiveness of sins, why do we treat sinners with such indignity?
posted by TinyElvis @ 10:40 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
Because we're going to heaven and they're not?
We're getting it twisted. Jesus hung out with lepers and whores. I'm sickened when I see parking lots at the area "Mega-church" filled with Cadillacs and European sports sedans, to be driven back to a $1M+ home in the uppity neighborhood where Junior will do homework before going off to his all-white, all-upper class school on Monday.
WWJD? How dare so many of us think we are following his lead? It boggles my mind.
yeah, I just don't get it. Scripture also says for any man not to think more highly of himself than he ought. Of course, Jesus loves the self-righteous, too. It is one thing to help someone that is screwing up get on the right path and a completely different thing to believe that you are the stick that God measures everyone else against.
anonymous,
How dare those sorry people with cars and houses go to church! They are going and no doubt contibuting to God's work thru that church. You don't know their hearts,,only God does.
I believe Jesus does want us to have nice things. I do not see what that has to do with anything except not to worship these nice things.cw
Jesus came to give us life. He who has the Son has life he who rejects the son of God will not have the life but the wrath of God remains on him. Those who believe have passed from death to life. That goes for the poor man and the rich man. It's not by what they did or are doing. But if we judge those christians who are rich are we not also judging ourselves? God doesn't care how much stuff we have or don't have. He desires us to trust in Him for everything. He himself has become our all in all.
Original Anonymous here.
Whatevs. To my mind there's two kinds of preachers out there: 1) the "Challenger", who is willing to point the finger at his or her congregation and demand more - be it titheing, volunteering, praying, whatever; 2) the "Back-Slapper", who foregoes all of the above preaches sunshine and rainbows, is all smiles, "truly we are blessed.." and maybe at the end of the service drops in a moment of quick prayer for whatever the trendy international cause celebre is that week.
I prefer the Challenger, others the Back Slapper. I'm no Scripture-head, but I do seem to recall JC challenging people, especially the wealthy and privileged.
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