Thursday, November 20, 2008

Have we stopped living Christanity and started studying it?

Ive been thinking alot recetly about how much emphasis we put on theology these days and how little we put on .. well Christ.

Last night I was studying in the Student Union and there was a table of like 4 or 5 guys debating theology....and when I mean debating I mean DEBATING.
They were getting heated and yelling and I was laughing at what they were saying becuase it was something like this

Sancitification cannot happen before purification or justification
..O no it is sancitification and then justificaction and if you wait three days without being justified your soul will not be monastaphized...
no it is four days! .. etc. for hourse

granted those are not the actual words, but basiically they were arguing down to one of the smallest most random points of christanity and fighting so hard about it that I just wanted to jump up and go over to their table and say..
does it really matter?!

You could have used these two hours you just spent fighting over this random topic and used it to be showing christ to the world. Living the way he calls us to live. To love and serve the Lord as faithful witnesses of His name.

Jesus never went around arguing theology. Rather he said be like the little children in their FAITH, love the LORD your God with all your heart soul and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.

Have we stopped living Christanity and started studying it?

Its interesting that until christanity passed through the Age of Reason ,Christanity was never something to be figured out. Yes there are many essential doctrines that we know, but we didnt know EVERYTHING. God still held the mystery and greatness that he deserve. Now it seems that there is an answer to EVERY question one might have. God has been condensed to a bible answer book, to theology. If we sit and argue about him enough, will ee really figure him out?

GOD

Who CREATED this earth in the midst of a universe greater than we can ever imagine. Do we think that we can define God...or that it is our job to stick up for him like he is some little guy in the clouds somewhere? If our earth is the size of a golfball, a schoolbus full of golfballs fits in the sun....and the sun is nothing compared to many of the other stars and galaxies in the universe. We have NO IDEA how great our God is.

Who is man that you are mindful of him?!

Our God is incredible, that we would love us despite how small we are, that he knows everything about us, let us not think that we are greater than him or can break him down into mere words.

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