Friday, June 10, 2011

Authentic Jesus

If a "christian", is defined by imitating Christ, then I wonder if Jesus walked into any church today, would He see himself?

I think about that a lot.  Because it seems to me that a lot of churches are filled with good meaning people, but covered in religion.  Now what do i mean by that, well...most people today outside of the church look inside and they see a falsness about the people, they say they love others, yet they stab each other in the back.  They say they love the lost, yet condem them for being "less."  I don't mean to imply that all in the church are like this, but many sadly are.

Many of the things we do in church are done out of habit, or tradition, but I wonder how many things are "Christ approved?"  We come to church in out best suit...Jesus wore his everyday cloths.  We only associate with other christians...Jesus said I have come to heal the sick, and not the well.  Churches think only the pastor should "go"...yet Jesus sent everyone he touched.  We have to use "religious", words....Jesus used words, people understood.....

For the next several weeks, we are breaking this all down, and changing our lives to be more like the, "authentic Jesus."