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The person who wrote most of the new testament letters was a mass
murderer. The person Christ first appears to when he rose from
the dead was a whore. The first person to evangelize a town for
Christ committed adultery with four different men. The son who
stays home and tries to do everything right gets nothing. The son
who lives like the devil wasting his money with riotous living gets a
robe, sandals, a ring, a fatted calf, and a big party. When Jesus
preaches in church the people want to throw him off the brow of a hill
and kill him. When he preaches to the unschooled, they want to
make him king. Christ only argues with the law abiding clergy but
forgives the woman caught in adultery. It is the church which
crucifies Christ not the sinner. Not what you would expect from
the bible and the Son of God. It was the most difficult thing for
Christ not to sin. He knows first hand that we will fail.
Yet it is only in failing that we can experience his mercy and love
which invokes in us a deep love for him. When you get real with
Christ, Christ will become real to you. That is the message
of Christ. Wake up! Most of the church is asleep, living in
a dream. He came for sinners like you and me. Then he can
make us righteous like him. But first we must know who and what
we are and what we need. When we do, Christ will give it to
us. That is the message of the gospel. Not what you would
expect. Amen |