Thursday, August 8, 2013

No thanks. I don't want to be a Christian.

Returning from Nicaragua, Hannah told me that many people down there told her outright that they were not ready to become a Christian because it was too hard. Too hard. Too hard? The concept that following Christ would be "hard" is so foreign to our ears that we can hardly understand it. We in the US are enmeshed in the heresy that Jesus is the great therapist. That following Him will make our lives wonderful. That Jesus is the great healer of all our wounds so that we will be perfectly content and happy with our lives during our sojourn on earth. This perspective ultimately destroys our interest in serving Christ because serving means dying to yourself, an uncomfortable act. The Nicaraguans who refuse to come to Christ have the right idea, Christ's idea in fact. He said "Count the cost." "Let the dead bury their dead." Their is no un-costly grace. Bonhoeffer was right, "Christ bids us come and die." Until we get this, we are not really Christians at all.

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