{"id":123,"date":"2004-04-14T23:30:33","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T23:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/04\/crash_helmet_ch.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:48:44","slug":"crash_helmet_ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/04\/crash_helmet_ch.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Crash Helmet Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why do I feel as though I just stepped into <\/a>a bunch of quicksand?
\nAnother post that got me thinking about the idea of fundamentals was this one<\/a> by didymus<\/a> I ‘met’ didymus at Infellowship<\/a>. He also came from the ICoC, but no longer worships with an ICoC church. I don’t know much about him, nor have we ever met, but because of our shared background, I feel a certain implicit bond with him.
\nAnyway, he refers to this article<\/a> at Christianity Today. In it, the author points out the aspects of Jesus we don’t enjoy talking about. The Jesus who said only a few will enter through the narrow gate (Matthew 7:13-14), who overturned tables at the temple (Mark 11:12-19), said we must repent or perish (Luke 13:1-5) and called us to take up our own crosses (Luke 9:23-27). The article says, writing about the current talk of Jesus stirred up by the movie ‘The Passion.’:<\/p>\n

\nIf, in this national conversation, we do nothing more than blithely discuss Jesus and his adaptable cultural presence\u2014well, we will have missed the real Jesus. We need to talk with biblical honesty about the One who would not only love and forgive us but also demolish all our cultural images of him.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The real Jesus was not afraid to offend, He spoke the truth. He was loving, but not sentimental. We keep silent, not wanting to ruffle feathers, too afraid to be considered judgmental. Certainly, we should not blindly trample folks with careless words and thoughts, but what good are we if we stand for nothing? Jesus was not the wet noodle that so much of Christianity is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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