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| As Christians we often sit in the comfort of our neat boxed-in cultural garden. We act like Christians, and we expect others to act like Christians, whether they are Christians or not. We claim to live to a higher moral standard and then we judge non-believers for not following those same standards as if they too were Christian. We claim we want to reach the lost, but we expect them to become believers first and live according to our ways before they can come to our churches, so that we can keep our churches looking a certain way; “clean.” How silly are we, living in our surrealistic little gardens, so culturally different and awkward to the world. We are so accustomed to our little Christian worlds we call church, that perhaps we have lost touch with the reality of the hurting world outside our gardens. We do things a certain way that only makes sense in our little worlds. We use certain vocabulary that only Christians would know. We expect certain things that only make sense in our Christian cultural contexts. We are living in surreal garden boxes within the lost and harsh world of reality. Perhaps we do not make the impact we desire to make because we just do not make any sense to the world. Perhaps we do not make sense to the world because we have sheltered ourselves from the world within the contexts of our own unrealistic little worlds. Perhaps instead of trying to pull people out of the world into our own little worlds, we should be focusing on bringing Christ into the world, where the lost are, where He is needed most. |
Surreal Garden
By Josh in News
Nov
12
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