Alot of what we hear today in Christianity is what I'll call the gospel of correction. The gospel that will straighten out the believer to make them pleasing to God.
If my Father decides I need correction and a whipping at times that is one thing. When man decides to clean Gods people up and tan their hide every time they meet, that is another.
I know people like a good beating every now and then, makes them feel like they have been to church.
Christians don't need beat they need to know who they are.
As a young Christian I attended some churches that would literally dangle you over hell for not following their doctrine.
The threat of hell was so strong as one man put it "you could feel the flames." I don't really get what the appeal is but people return time and again for the same abuse.
Maybe if you heard more of "you are complete in Christ and the Father put His seed in you the moment you believed," maybe just maybe, we would see gospel results that Christians are so hungry for.
The apostle Paul's message is that Christ in us will be taught to the soul and that we are going to express Christ in our daily lives.
The way God created you is the way Christ is going to come out of you.
That is the blessed liberty you and I have.
Some are going to be quite, and some going to be loud.
Regardless it is "Christ in you the hope of glory."
If my Father decides I need correction and a whipping at times that is one thing. When man decides to clean Gods people up and tan their hide every time they meet, that is another.
I know people like a good beating every now and then, makes them feel like they have been to church.
Christians don't need beat they need to know who they are.
As a young Christian I attended some churches that would literally dangle you over hell for not following their doctrine.
The threat of hell was so strong as one man put it "you could feel the flames." I don't really get what the appeal is but people return time and again for the same abuse.
Maybe if you heard more of "you are complete in Christ and the Father put His seed in you the moment you believed," maybe just maybe, we would see gospel results that Christians are so hungry for.
The apostle Paul's message is that Christ in us will be taught to the soul and that we are going to express Christ in our daily lives.
The way God created you is the way Christ is going to come out of you.
That is the blessed liberty you and I have.
Some are going to be quite, and some going to be loud.
Regardless it is "Christ in you the hope of glory."
