Neighbours
  • Home with us
  • News with us
  • Blog with us
  • Donate
  • Partner with us
    • Partner with us
  • Connect with us
  • Neighbours Music
  • Why?

Blog with us

All members of the Neighbours community share their experiences here 

Becoming Christ followers...

19/6/2014

0 Comments

 
Gandhi once said "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." and later said "Oh, I don’t reject Christ. I love Christ. It’s just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ. If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today." A Barna study found the three most common associations with the Christian faith by non-Christians are anti-gay (91%,) judgmental (87%), and hypocritical (85%). This should not be! Jesus said we should be known by our love and that our love will draw people to Him. The sermon on the mount and the teachings of Jesus are so far from this type of Christianity.
I was reminded of this today by a friend, Kevin Knight, who lives in the slums of Cambodia, when he posted this quote on Facebook by Dietrich Bonhoeffer: "The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of Monasticism, which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this."
Thank you for the reminder Kevin, it is indeed high time and we so desperately need this kind of renewal. I too have come to believe that the sermon on the mount and the words of Christ are central to how I interpret the bible and provides a call to a Christianity that is so needed by the world and yet is so dearly missing. When we read the bible through Jesus, it leads us to the margins of society, to fight for justice in our world and live out a radical counter-culture Christianity.
May many be found in the place of blessing described in the sermon on the mount today... Be blessed
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    October 2020
    September 2020
    June 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    October 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    August 2015
    February 2015
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    March 2012
    June 1976

    quick links

    All
    Colonialism
    Death Penalty
    Dignity
    Employee Responsibilities
    Employment Rights
    Empower
    Equality
    Exclusion
    Funny
    Greed
    Inclusion
    Inequality
    Justice
    Living Wage
    Love
    News
    Power
    Racism
    Reflections
    Support
    Video
    Workers

    RSS Feed

Home

About

Events

Blog

Partner with us

© COPYRIGHT 2017. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Home with us
  • News with us
  • Blog with us
  • Donate
  • Partner with us
    • Partner with us
  • Connect with us
  • Neighbours Music
  • Why?