Most of my life, I have been a Christian and I have attended a Church of Christ. An unwritten guideline in the mainstream Church of Christ has been something like this...
One of the main purposes for bible study with those outside of the
Church of Christ is to ultimately "convert" them to be a part of the Church of Christ.
As a "Church of Christ-lifer", this made sense. We had it right, so this was right and good. Even though this was an unspoken guideline, there was a logical conclusion that most members made from this.
A bible study with someone outside the Church of Christ that did not have as a goal to "convert" the subject(s) or one where you knew the subject(s) were not open to the idea was a waste of time and even dangerous.
I bought into this! Probably one reason is that it was easy to do so. To open my mind and subject my own faith to scrutiny was dangerous and "...who knows what might happen?". My whole life, I have been afraid to open the Bible with others that are searching for the truth just like I am, all the while being "spoon-fed" my faith from the pulpit.
Maybe I am slow, and I just got this, but atleast I got it.
I pray that I will act on it.
2 comments:
Hallelujah!!!
All our live's we make choices far less important than our path of Christianity. Our choices are a result of getting all the information we can about a product and then making a decision. Often many people choose thier Christian path based on traditions and what they are told by others. Don't we owe the most important decision in our life to more than mere accepting what we are told. If that were true we would have bought our first car, our first house or whatever..because that is what others wanted us to have.God gave us free will Christ and intended for Christianity to be a choice..When that choice is made out of love and made freely without guilt..then we are truely living.
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