so, to clarify, I don't literally mean I am Jesus. Here's what I mean: For the first few years of my walk---I loved the vast majority of everything I saw in Jesus and the teachings of Paul...there was little not to like. There was some knowledge of my sinfulness but an ever present desire to be like Jesus and exemplify his teachings tenfold. I would at times find the prophecy of the suffering servant in Isaiah and thinking I shared that experience with Jesus (my suffering was nowhere near his, for the record). But what truly disturbed me more than anything else, was that, what I couldn't push from my mind was...if Jesus attended church today, Christians would probably despise him and kick him out of it, without repentance. And this is great cause for concern; because unrepentance of that nature should cause us to question our salvation. I would tell you now that I have learned more about grace and the brevity of my sinfulness; nonetheless my experience helped me to see a deep dark problem within the church today.
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- Show all