OK, I gotta speak up. Christ-followers cannot be the people who take pride in themselves on not being around gay, transgender, Muslim, Hindu and whoever, when their own churches are convulsing with sin, including pornography.
We betray the Gospel by if we stumble all over ourselves to denounce secular leftists but stay silent about half-truths from the pulpit and prosperity gospel heretics among us. Those who chase the rich, famous, and powerful are chasing after false idols and their snappy self-help sayings. How's that big book deal, Pr. Super Apostle? Comfy in your mansion? How's your jet flying these days? That stuff is temporary and you've become too "at home" in the world. Our citizenship is in Heaven (Philippians 3:20) and we should be living a transformed life (Romans 12:2). Our security doesn't rest in stuff (or a constitution), but in Christ Jesus.
Seeing Christ in the faces of the poor means we're seeing Christ himself (check Matthew 25:31-46). Are we willing to disown ourselves and our stuff and identify with our Christian brothers and sisters that are homeless, poor, hungry, thirsty? Those with addictions? Those who are same-sex attracted and who are wondering what it means to live among others that do not condemn, but love and want to help ALL who sin (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)?
Carry on.
We betray the Gospel by if we stumble all over ourselves to denounce secular leftists but stay silent about half-truths from the pulpit and prosperity gospel heretics among us. Those who chase the rich, famous, and powerful are chasing after false idols and their snappy self-help sayings. How's that big book deal, Pr. Super Apostle? Comfy in your mansion? How's your jet flying these days? That stuff is temporary and you've become too "at home" in the world. Our citizenship is in Heaven (Philippians 3:20) and we should be living a transformed life (Romans 12:2). Our security doesn't rest in stuff (or a constitution), but in Christ Jesus.
Seeing Christ in the faces of the poor means we're seeing Christ himself (check Matthew 25:31-46). Are we willing to disown ourselves and our stuff and identify with our Christian brothers and sisters that are homeless, poor, hungry, thirsty? Those with addictions? Those who are same-sex attracted and who are wondering what it means to live among others that do not condemn, but love and want to help ALL who sin (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)?
Carry on.