I am surprised to see negative posts about religion appears frequently in local Bloggerphere nowadays, to be specific, post about 'Aggressive Christian'. Some wrote about their bad experience with some Christian who practices the 'preaching against people's wishes' or 'christian brain washing', and some just simply cannot stand the sight of the overwhelmingly loving and holy christian groupie, who use the mysterious christianese language to communicate among themselves.
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I'm appalled at the fact that this is how the non believers perceived Christian nowadays. That we, the christian are a group of self deception people with 'holy than thou' attitude, perceived the non believers as not having a purpose in life, and conclude that therefore they need to be saved.
... is that justifiable for the Christians to force our belief on others?
As i reflected on myself and this whole fiasco, i cant help but to think that we may have lose our grip on the reality and conveniently dis-connected ourselves from the world. Yes, Christians are taught to live a Christ-like life, which includes the obligation of sharing the gospel with others. However, the question is when we approach others, what is our attitude and ultimately do we understand the meaning of our own act. Of course we do this out of love and compassion, but can we just go out hardcore converting people in the name of God's love? I'm constantly surprised with some of the MLM equivalent tactics which certain churches employ as though they are doing it to meet an arbitrary quota of saved souls.
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Its simply ignorance if we think with a 4 spiritual law speech, we are able to 'shed some lights' and expecting the non believers to say "yes, i believe". Do we realized here that we are not passing a well memorized facts, but its our life that we are passing to them. what is more convincing than seeing a life testimony itself? Why we aren't starting by being their friends? And more important is, its shouldn't be our personal effort, as spiritual insight can only be revealed by God Himself.
Frankly speaking, being a christian does not make us any better than others (Being a better man is never the goal of a christian). We are all sinners and the only 'advantage' we had compare to non believers is that Christians have the strength to choose to sin or not to sin. It doesn't really make us more qualified to enter the gate of heaven nor gain favoritism in His eyes.
If i can see my life spread out in front of me, maybe i will speak with more conviction. The fact is i don't know, ultimately will I do enough to be called as His child in His Kingdom of Heaven? will I stay the course till the very end? The fact is i dont know, we all dont know.
And thats why we are human.
... is that justifiable for the Christians to force our belief on others?
As i reflected on myself and this whole fiasco, i cant help but to think that we may have lose our grip on the reality and conveniently dis-connected ourselves from the world. Yes, Christians are taught to live a Christ-like life, which includes the obligation of sharing the gospel with others. However, the question is when we approach others, what is our attitude and ultimately do we understand the meaning of our own act. Of course we do this out of love and compassion, but can we just go out hardcore converting people in the name of God's love? I'm constantly surprised with some of the MLM equivalent tactics which certain churches employ as though they are doing it to meet an arbitrary quota of saved souls.
*Click to zoom in
Its simply ignorance if we think with a 4 spiritual law speech, we are able to 'shed some lights' and expecting the non believers to say "yes, i believe". Do we realized here that we are not passing a well memorized facts, but its our life that we are passing to them. what is more convincing than seeing a life testimony itself? Why we aren't starting by being their friends? And more important is, its shouldn't be our personal effort, as spiritual insight can only be revealed by God Himself.
Frankly speaking, being a christian does not make us any better than others (Being a better man is never the goal of a christian). We are all sinners and the only 'advantage' we had compare to non believers is that Christians have the strength to choose to sin or not to sin. It doesn't really make us more qualified to enter the gate of heaven nor gain favoritism in His eyes.
If i can see my life spread out in front of me, maybe i will speak with more conviction. The fact is i don't know, ultimately will I do enough to be called as His child in His Kingdom of Heaven? will I stay the course till the very end? The fact is i dont know, we all dont know.
And thats why we are human.
