Wow! What a great comment…..and you bring up a great point, why are Christians obsessed about sex and judging people on sex?!

I have to smile when you bring up the 70s and being clothed today in Christ….the church definitely needs those clothes!

There are the hungry and the sick, yes and we must care for them! But I have seen too many friends die at their own hand this past year.

I often think if only they have known the love that I know! But it is so hard to see that love in the smoke of the fire and brimstone that seems to be so part of congregational culture.

As always, thanks for your mighty contribution to the conversation. The hate mail seems to come to me through private email LOL!

Hope you are well!

God Bless!

David

Back in the innocent “Jesus People” days of the 70′s, we used to sing a song: “They’ll know we are Christians by our love”. We need to learn that lesson again.

How will people recognize the true Christian church? Jesus Himself tells us two ways: John 13:35: “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Another is John 17:21: “that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.” In a word, unity.

Why don’t people see Christ in us? Because the American church of the 21st century doesn’t clothe itself in Christ. We are a divided and divisive group of whiners and judgers, just as you described, David. It’s nowhere near what Jesus expects of us.

Love your enemies? We don’t even love our friends the way Jesus taught us to.

And what’s with this fundamentalist obsession with sex? Count the number of references to love and justice in scripture compared to sexual sin. It’s not even close. God obsesses over justice; we ignore it in our attempts to purify the country. Could there be some latent twisted prurient fetish that makes “Christians” fixate on sex while most of the world’s children go to bed hungry and die of preventable diseases?

What would Jesus do? The same thing He did when he came to Jerusalem at the start of Holy Week: He’d weep over us.

I was always touched by how a great film – or even a great moment in a mediocre film – gave him such delight. I’ve come to appreciate many movies I probably would have overlooked or dismissed if not for his wonderful insights and commentary.

Enjoy the stars, Roger. You will be missed.

Here’s a link to the story.

http://www.online-literature.com/poe/180/