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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread has “affirmed” for me that I don’t want my family anywhere near a Christian church. Lot of smug a*holes on here. I think we’ll settle for being good for goodness sake, love our neighbors as ourselves, and put our trust in science and humanity rather than  Stone Age superstition.

OP - you’re better off joining a secular community organization than any of these churches. Do something to actually add some good to the world. [/quote]

To this person — I am not going to get into what each person responded said.   I do wish that you would hear the true Christian Gospel without any of the extra commentary.   Here’s my attempt:

The reality is — no matter how “good” each of us tries to act — we constantly fall short.   Loving your neighbor as yourself is great in theory — except try doing it for a day or even a morning.   When your spouse annoys you or your boss ticks you off or your kids are nasty to you or something else goes wrong — the theory immediately goes out the window.  You don’t love other people as yourself.  And that’s when you’re not at fault.  There are plenty of times when our own selfish hearts and behaviors do in fact hurt other people.   We are angry or mean or greedy or arrogant or rude to other people and say afterwards “Why did I do that?!”    People who can’t admit this about themselves are not being honest about their own flaws.

Thankfully,  we aren’t expected to be perfect.  Rather, Jesus lived the perfect life for us and we get his perfect record before God simply through faith in him.  Nothing else.  Life isn’t this rat race of working really hard to do “good” — though after you understand and appreciate the magnitude of what Jesus did for you, it inevitably changes the way you live your life.  My life changed dramatically after I found Jesus — not because I was doing things to “avoid hell” or to be a “good person” but because I proactively wanted to reflect love back to Jesus.  The changes are gradual and usually don’t happen instantly.  I am very much a work in progress.   It is a life long journey as you walk in a new identity and a new self.

This is the heart and essence of Christianity.  The end result is that if you truly understand Christianity, it makes you humble and affirmed at the same time.  Humble because you are not better than anyone else.   Affirmed because the only two eyes in the universe that matter see you to the bottom and love you to the moon.  Who cares what anyone else thinks?

I’m sorry that so many people responding to this thread have misrepresented it or taken you down side roads that are not the Gospel.   It’s also sad how so many purported Christians do not grasp what the faith actually says.

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DP. This is beautiful, pp. Thank you.[/quote]

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