Thought of the Day 06.11.09

Imagine a religion which taught that right standing with God could be achieved by following a moral code. How would that religion talk to people in the culture around it? Now compare that with how you talk to people in our culture and see whether you are inadvertently evangelizing for that religion rather than for Christianity.

Next, imagine another religion which taught that all people already are fully accepted by God no matter what they do and that they can’t dishonor God nor matter how they live. How would that religion talk to people in the culture around it? Now compare that with how you talk to people in our culture and see whether you are inadvertently evangelizing for that religion rather than for Christianity.

All of us who know the Gospel still tend to err toward one or the other of these extremes. But until it is easy for people to know that we aren’t representing either of these two false religions, then whatever else we may tell ourselves, we aren’t yet representing Christianity.