I fear there is a academic that has swept morden Christianity away....
one of indie style and hippy thoughts.
Let me pose you this question.
What does it truly mean to love someone?
There is this saying among this young generation
" Love God, Love people"
Taken from John 15:12 and other scriptures in 1st John, this popular saying has missed the mark of what it truly means.
In the next few blogs I will try and break down this popular saying and point out its flaws.
If loving people for Christ means never telling them about Christ, did you even really love them at all?
If you only "love on" them but never tell the reason why, did you really still love them?
I will attempt to answer these questions in the most biblical response I know how.
I will go ahead and say this...
When you truly love someone that means you want the best for them right?
So wouldn't that mean equipping them with knowledge and teaching them about how to change for the better?
Now is not the time Christians to be okay with where you are, or ever for that fact..
It isn't the time or ever to settle for the love response, but actually knowing the weight of what love means and carrying on from there.
Wanna learn how to really love people?
next post coming soon.
Wow!
ReplyDelete"If loving people for Christ means never telling them about Christ, did you even really love them at all? If you only 'love on' them but never tell the reason why, did you really still love them?"
Two great questions!
I'm a friend of Rods and he retweeted your post and I thought it was really good! It begs the question then how donwe respond in love? Is love letting people close to us be deceived into thinking they are believers when they are not living life styles of repentance an belief a upon the gospel! This is something I've been wrestling with, showing love to my love ones is not condoning their sin but rather I should be sharing, not "showing", the gospel! Praise the Lord for heis good and he has saved me so why shouldn't I be sharing this with people! Real love id say is loving showing those whom we care for that they aren't living a life style of repentance an faith and to share the gospel for we were once lovers of evil but as belivers we are covered by the blood of christ and he took on the wrath of God for us and the Lord has saved us and we are holy, chosen, and set apart forthe glory of God not bc of ourselves but Christ (Colossians 3:12-14) An this is the love we should show, to care about the souls around us.
ReplyDelete-Hannah :)