If these are “emerging Christians”, I’m runnin’ for the hills!
Brother, this is probably just my thought since things like this are very attractive to the world, but if I weren’t a Christian and saw this, I’d be like, “I don’t want to be like that…it is [or 'was', of course] too much like me now”. And as a lost person, I did have some sense that Christians were SUPPOSED TO BE different than everyone I knew…
Different…but not like these “brethren”…wow.
We spending eternity with them? I’m thankful we’re all gettin’ a glorified body!
My comments may sound elitist and rude, but I’m really not trying to be. Christianity is not elitist, it is exclusive. And what I mean by that is Christianity must be had God’s way and lived God’s way. I love these people in this picture…but is this what God wants and is this God’s way?
I can hear the critics now: “That’s how THEY express their Christianity”, and “How can you judge”…we can talk about it, but again, sufficed to say, Christianity is exlusive – you must come God’s way and you must live the way God wants us to…I can’t “express” “MY” Christianity the way “I” want to…only in the way God wants me to.
Thanks for firin’ me up, my brother! And thanks for posting this pic.
September 20, 2008 at 6:23 am
Great follow-up to your “I Hate Halloween” post!
If these are “emerging Christians”, I’m runnin’ for the hills!
Brother, this is probably just my thought since things like this are very attractive to the world, but if I weren’t a Christian and saw this, I’d be like, “I don’t want to be like that…it is [or 'was', of course] too much like me now”. And as a lost person, I did have some sense that Christians were SUPPOSED TO BE different than everyone I knew…
Different…but not like these “brethren”…wow.
We spending eternity with them? I’m thankful we’re all gettin’ a glorified body!
My comments may sound elitist and rude, but I’m really not trying to be. Christianity is not elitist, it is exclusive. And what I mean by that is Christianity must be had God’s way and lived God’s way. I love these people in this picture…but is this what God wants and is this God’s way?
I can hear the critics now: “That’s how THEY express their Christianity”, and “How can you judge”…we can talk about it, but again, sufficed to say, Christianity is exlusive – you must come God’s way and you must live the way God wants us to…I can’t “express” “MY” Christianity the way “I” want to…only in the way God wants me to.
Thanks for firin’ me up, my brother! And thanks for posting this pic.
Lord bless!