Who's right? Who's wrong?
Revival is when God touches man and man encounters God, bringing about a spiritual renewal and a change in lifestyle by the power of the Holy Spirit.
I'm for revival, I had the privilege of experiencing a powerful move of God in St Andrew's back in 2001 Religious Emphasis Week.
However it is sad when you equate revival to adhering to your form of bureaucracy, aka Cultural assimilation, when one thinks his way is the right way, sanctioned by the Almighty. Sensitivity is thrown out of the window and we think we are superior in every sense of the word and seek to achieve hegemony - only when everyone acts like you do, talks like you do, likes the things you like, hates the things you hate, do they assume success. The form is there, but where is the power?
I'm here to tell you this. Wake up.
Ever wondered why certain cultural/people group hates Christian despite the fact that Christianity teaches love and acceptance? Ever wondered why people leave churches and become disillusioned with organized religion? It is exactly because of this superior snobbishness. I've seen it first hand, and I am appalled by the way people are treated in the name of God.
IN THE NAME OF GOD?!
The Crusaders thought they were fighting for God.
The jihadist thought they were killing for God.
Charles Manson thought he was god.
People tell me that God speaks to them and assume that God cannot speak to those 'not in their camp' and vice versa.
So who is right and who is wrong?
Who are you to judge your brother?
To you who still place their faith in all the wrong places, all I can say to you is:
Heil Hitler!
I'm for revival, I had the privilege of experiencing a powerful move of God in St Andrew's back in 2001 Religious Emphasis Week.
However it is sad when you equate revival to adhering to your form of bureaucracy, aka Cultural assimilation, when one thinks his way is the right way, sanctioned by the Almighty. Sensitivity is thrown out of the window and we think we are superior in every sense of the word and seek to achieve hegemony - only when everyone acts like you do, talks like you do, likes the things you like, hates the things you hate, do they assume success. The form is there, but where is the power?
I'm here to tell you this. Wake up.
Ever wondered why certain cultural/people group hates Christian despite the fact that Christianity teaches love and acceptance? Ever wondered why people leave churches and become disillusioned with organized religion? It is exactly because of this superior snobbishness. I've seen it first hand, and I am appalled by the way people are treated in the name of God.
IN THE NAME OF GOD?!
The Crusaders thought they were fighting for God.
The jihadist thought they were killing for God.
Charles Manson thought he was god.
People tell me that God speaks to them and assume that God cannot speak to those 'not in their camp' and vice versa.
So who is right and who is wrong?
Who are you to judge your brother?
To you who still place their faith in all the wrong places, all I can say to you is:
Heil Hitler!
posted by DoMiniC at 6/12/2008 01:43:00 PM
1 Comments:
I come to this 'conclusion' not too long ago - ALL who profess to be Christians should go for a course on 'cross-cultural understanding'. Ethnocentricity has dealt a great blow to the church of Christ, with many sincere folks failing to embrace each other in love because of what they think is right or wrong according to their own values(which has nothing to do with biblical principles in the first place).
Someone may proclaimed, "I'm a Christian!" and I will ask, "Yes, this I know. But are you a follower of Jesus Christ?" Are you behaving like Him? Or just 'playing religion'? We will do well to heed the words of 1 Cor 13.
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