- I am sorry for being an impetuous friend: for the times I have hung out with you waiting for the 'gospel opportunity', being disappointed when there wasn't one and so resenting my time spent with you.
INSTEAD: "So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us." - I am sorry for the times I make a mockery of my God and don't display His worth and value to you by treasuring other things more highly than He.
INSTEAD: But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. - I am sorry I look down on your life's pursuits and laughed at your attitude of "if you dig it, do it".
INSTEAD: "When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd."
Christians are viewed by the world often as judgmental, arrogant, do-good party-poopers... and sometimes we deserve rightly this criticism. Christian brothers and sisters... Christ didn't save us to a religion of moral correctness and boredom but to serve the living God with joy and true lasting fulfillment. We are a community of dirty, fallen, broken, transforming YET perfectly forgiven people! Thank you Jesus!
This blog entry is in response to being tagged by a friend, as part of a thing called...
CHRISTIANS CONFESS: Where Christians are encouraged to apologize for three things that Christians have often got wrong.
Your apologies should be directed towards those who don’t view themselves as part of the Christian community. Alternatively, apologize for things you personally have done wrong towards those outside of the church.
1 comment:
Thanks for that Hayley.
Especially thought-provoking, in light of your previous post.
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