We were created to have relationship with Him--God, our Creator and Father. We were also created to bring Him glory by being the humans He created us to be--in His image. The Western Church has failed in its responsibilities to bring God glory by the way we live. We have done this by allowing ourselves to be convinced that our relationship with God is merely 'religion'--a set of privately held beliefs and the rites and rituals which we have made up to go along with those beliefs. The result is a church which is shrinking in numbers of committed members and weakening in its influence in our society and culture. Jesus said that we were to be salt and light.
To live is to grow and to grow is to change. The Word talks about going from faith to faith and glory to glory. This means that I am supposed to be becoming more like Jesus. It does not mean that I have a greater intellectual, or politically correct, set of doctrines I believe in. For us to MAKE a difference, we have to BE different--and not just different for difference's sake. There's a lot of folk out there who color their hair, tatoo their bodies and wear weird clothes (or not much clothes) just to be different because they crave the attention. I need to carry myself in such a way that the Jesus-in-me either attracts or repels people, because Jesus attracted or repelled people. People are rarely neutral about Jesus.
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