Sometimes I see Christians living in America as similar to the Jews living under Roman rule. We both endure persecution for our beliefs, and have a lot to say about the evils of the society we live within.
I wonder, if there was a gospel of Jesus coming to give teachings to Americans, Christian and non-Christian alike, what would he say? Here is a list of topics I think he might address, relevant to today, but like what is presented in the Gospels:
I wonder, if there was a gospel of Jesus coming to give teachings to Americans, Christian and non-Christian alike, what would he say? Here is a list of topics I think he might address, relevant to today, but like what is presented in the Gospels:
- The fragmentation of the church - Jesus set up a church through Peter, but what is the church today? Broken over controversy
- Hyprocrisy in condemnation of sins (especially of the sexual sin (especially of heterosexual vs homosexual sin)) a la the woman caught in adultery in John 8.
- Churches/church members and wealth/money - Nothing much would change from his original message, in my opinion!
- Our "worship" of our ingenuity/technology/science
- Atheism is relatively new in its popularity. Instead of rebuking false gods, I wonder what Jesus would say about no god, and explaining god away with science.
- American comfort and the resulting apathy.
- Our government could be considered very similar to Rome in many ways, I wonder if Jesus would regard it similarly.
- Gluttony? Kind of going with the comfort and apathy ideas, this is much more of a problem now than in the first century AD.
- Maybe there would be healings for diseases that are relatively new today or recognized differently such as eating disorders, HIV/AIDS, anxiety disorders, and who knows, maybe even some demon casting
- Performing miracles that are meaningful to us today, and a believable as miracles, not explainable on earth.
- I'm sure there is much more.
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