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Christ remains the
big attraction
January 13, 2008 - Ian
This article is from a friend…. In a long life largely devoted to sitting
at airports or on airplanes, I have been told by a stream of fellow travellers
that Christ, when on earth, was many things. He was, they say, (a) a non-smoker;
(b) teetotaller; (c) a pacifist; (d) a rebel; (e) a capitalist; (f) a unionist;
(g) homosexual and (h-z) countless other things.
The fact that those who told me these things were also (a) non-smokers; (b)
teetotallers; (c) pacifists; (d) anti-establishment; (e) a company director; (f)
unionist; (g) homosexual and (h-z) countless other things, might of course have
something to do with it. They may, let us say, have fallen for the temptation of
creating a god in their own image.
Then there was the man who assured me that Christianity began in England. He
was, need I say it, an Englishman. And while he didn't actually say that Christ
was an old boy of his school, he certainly implied that if he wasn't he would
not have been so well known.
How did you feel when you heard that missionaries were being expelled from
Communist China years ago? Why? Was it because our white, western, conservative
Christ was being rejected by those communists? Or did you wonder with the growth
of independent Africa how the church would fare? Did you think that because
Christianity was a European import, it would cease to have meaning as soon as
the European powers abandoned the continent to the black nationalists?
Well, I heard recently from one of the expelled missionaries from China. "On
recent visits to China," he said, "I've met former students who've been leading
the church. I’ve worshipped with thousands of Christians; a great flood of the
faithful and more people are asking questions."
While in black Africa, Christianity is the only imported movement which
continues to fascinate and attract converts by the thousands. While Western
economic or democratic systems have been thrown over, the Christian faith still
grows (slower in the west but growth none the less).
Christ, in other words, continues to attract people wherever they are. So from
(a) - (z) you can say he is attractive. Because from first to last he is God.
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Ian
Comments
Well, I don't care about (a) - (z). For me
Christ is my Lord and Savior. The question is why people could think (a) - (z)
about Jesus? Indeed some of them think wrong about Jesus because they refuse to
believe something that is out of sense (such as Christ died for our sins, or how
we have to forgive those who sin against us). But we can't gainsay the fact that
many of them think wrong about Jesus because they see the Christians do those
(a) - (z) wrong things. So, if we don't want people say (a) - (z) about Jesus,
then we better live in holiness and do good things.
Posted by Lidia on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 01:48:38
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