Fightin’
Jun 18th, 2008 by K in Uncategorized
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All of us SynerJack guys are a little tied-up right now, with Metroplex stuff, new puppies, giving daughters for wives, and getting married. But, having found a Starbucks and somehow wrangling my way through all of the hoops you have to jump through in order to coast the information superhighway, here we go…
Part of our namesake is the nickname of the brilliant man C.S. “Jack” Lewis. All four of us guys (as well as anyone else posting on here!) enjoy Lewis’ works in huge ways. They’re not Scripture, but we like reading them almost as much.
In his great work “Mere Christianity,” Lewis has this to say - “Christianity has always been a fighting religion.” In a society that has lost most of its grit (we’re more whiney, now, and think we’re entitled to more than ever), and a Church that, for the most part, goes the way of society instead of vice-versa (please don’t read too much into that… I LOVE the Church!!!), what does this statement say to us?
Chew on that for the next week and let’s see what you guys think. Or, you can hold up your hands and just “get along.”
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Oh man, I could go on about this one. I get so frustrated with seeing the church trying to imitate the world in all we do, and they wondering why our churches are shrinking. Why imitate the world? We usually do a terrible job of it, anyway! We worry more about being p.c. than about preaching the Truth of the gospel.
Christianity IS a fighting religion in the sense that Truth is Truth, we are not the originators of it, only the messengers called to carry it to a world desperately in need of it. And it will offend! Jesus promised us it would! So, as Derek Webb once said, we need to quit worrying about it and “get to preaachin’!”
Of course, in all this, I’m as guilty as anyone. How often have I shrunk from boldly proclaiming the Cross of Christ out of fear, or a desire not to offend? Too many.
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