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Sunday, December 27, 2009
How can Christianity remain relevant in 21st Century America?
12:26 AM | 
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Elroy Rankins
These words of Jesus are important because they are the basis for Christian evanglism. If you believe that Jesus was just a moral teacher, or that he only provided an alternative path to God; then there would be little reason or motivation to evangelize the world. However, if you believe that Jesus is the only path to God and thus salvation; you will likely also believe that it is imperative for people to receive the message.
Many people toaday are willing to accept the teachings of Jesus as part of their overall world view. However, they are not willing to accept Jesus on the basis of such uncompromising exclusivity.
In America today, the prevailing view in religious circles; is that there any many paths to God. Very few people are willing to entertain or embrace Jesus as the one and only means to salvation.
It is important for Christians to realize that if we are unwilling to take a stand for the truth then we will have no compelling message to give to the world.
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As long as we remember that All is done by and From GOD Through Jesus Christ. The Christian Stance must be from a realization that we have been shown great favor now; (If we see and hear). The promise to Abraham is that All The Families of The Earth WILL Be Blessed in His (Abraham's Seed) Jesus Christ. (Gen 12:3, Gen 28:14, Act 3:25)
If all Will (be blessed), then none will be (not blessed). So either that Promise is null and void or most of Christianity is dead wrong about how GOD Intends to save every human ever born.
We need to present Jesus Christ not in a fearful sense (re: avoid eternal torture) but in the True LOVE sense (He First Loves all of us and will not lose even one human ever.) Joh 3:16-17
Joh 6:44 (MKJV)
"No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.
Eph 2:4-10 (CLV)
4 yet God, being rich in mercy, because of His vast love with which He loves us"
5 (we also being dead to the offenses and the lusts), vivifies us together in Christ (in grace are you saved!)"
6 and rouses us together and seats us together among the celestials, in Christ Jesus,
7 that, in the oncoming eons, He should be displaying the transcendent riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus."
8 For in grace, through faith, are you saved, and this is not out of you; it is God's approach present,
9 not of works, lest anyone should be boasting."
10 For His achievement are we, being created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God makes ready beforehand, that we should be walking in them."
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