Christ's message is about as relevant as it gets already...
he loves you as you are??
come on now.
so what is all this nonsense of watering down the gospel?
Why would we feed people the lie that God is tame?
"he is not a tame lion, but he is good."
The gospel is beautiful in its ferocity and unequivocal in its glorious and frightening truth.
We think we need to come up with all these new ways to present the outrageous gift God has given us but what we really need is to actually understand what it is ourselves... and become alright with the idea that we may never fully understand it...
that we shouldn't.
its unexplainable.
AND THAT is why its so delightful.
‘Variety may be the spice of life, but it is not life itself. It is that bread of life, that peace of God which is the very stuff of life itself, for which men’s souls are starving in these days’. -Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, The Wicket Gate(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1923).
this quote is what i would like to say to every youth pastor out there who thinks they need to water down the gospel for teenagers whose brains are disintegrating.
how about we believe in youth and ask them to stand up and really learn...
that is my theory on how people take interest into things... they realize that though difficult they have the ability to understand it if they work hard at it.
don't insult the creation of the mind... utilize its full potential and ask people to reason through the reality of christology and all that entails.
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