Las Vegas
I was watching the show Las Vegas on television the other night and part of the show was about a contest that the casino was having where the contestants had to keep one of their hands on the vehicle the longest in order to win the truck. One of the contestants on the show was a religious woman who called in her church choir to the event, and in this particular scene it shows the woman and the choir singing songs to God. I’m not saying that singing songs to God in public is wrong. But I do believe that there is a time and a place for that. This woman in this show ended up causing a huge scene and eventually ended up taking her hand off the truck because “the Spirit” got on her.
This show sort of gives me an idea as to what our culture sees Christians as. I believe that the Christian faith has become a joke to society. I just don’t get it. Being Christ-like does not mean that you have to scream and yell “repent” to everyone you see. Most people probably wouldn’t know what that means anyway.
I’ve notice while reading the gospels (Mathew, Mark, Luke and John) that Jesus was always trying to build a relationship with the “sinners” and Jesus always seemed to get in an argument with all the church leaders. It seems like now, from what I’ve seen, that the church has turned what Jesus taught us around and now its shunning the ones who needs a helping hand and receiving the church’s hypocrisy.
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You sound a little confused and I don’t blame you. Religion is enough to confuse anyone. Perhaps I can help …. maybe not. Understand that religion was not God’s idea. It was Satan’s. He started it back at The Tower of Babel. You can read about it in Genesis 10 and 11. It was, of course, a pagan religion and it continued on even after Jesus was hanged on the Cross. The followers of Jesus were persecuted until in about 312AD when the emperor Constantine issed his edict of Tolerence and it become OK to worship anyway you wanted. A few years later an emperor named Theodosis decreed that Christianity should be the state religion. Well, all these pagan worshippers came into the Christian Church and brought all their pagan rituals with them.
Of course, these pagan things were all “christianized” and became part of the worship. There’s a big long list and I won’t go into them now but these pagan rituals still exist in many of the mainline “Christian” religions today. The Reformation came along in the middle ages but it added to the confusion. And that confusion still exists today and ol’ Satan is putting on the full ourt press because he knows his time is growing short. Real Christianity is not a religion. It’s a relationship with God made available through the Sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, on The Cross. Becoming a Christian is easy it’s also very difficult. It’s easy because all you have to do admit that you’re a sinner and ask God to forgive you as you surrender your life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. That’s easy enough. The difficult part is admitting to yourself that you
need saving …. overcoming pride and self suffiency and yielding yourself to Jesus. And I gotta tell you from experience that’s not easy to do. But I’ve found, after walking with Jesus for 30+ years it’s wonderful. Well, I hope that helps lift some of your confusion. So don’t bother yourself with religion. Just surrended your life to Jesus. And watch out for the religionists. Now you know where they’re coming from. And whatever you do, don’t concern yourself with what The World thinks. Amen? mizpah