Lost Followers

Have we as followers of Jesus lost our way? What is the focus of our Christian faith?

We believe that the Christian life is somehow about defending our faith and attacking those who do not believe like we do.

We have become confrontive rather than compassionate. We confront those that think differently than we do. We attack their character and their lives. Jesus calls us to compassion. We are called to care for them. Jesus’ compassion will lead them closer to his Father more than confrontation will.

We want to argue people over to our point of view rather than love them over to God’s point of view. Somehow we think if we just had the right word to show them how wrong they are or to “prove” to them how right we are then we could “convert” them. Yet, we must realize that conversion comes not from the right argument but from the right LOVE – Jesus’ love, dying for them showing them the heart of God.

We have a passionate protest –ant theology rather than a passion from our Savior which fills our hearts and flows out of our lives to those who need him.

Jesus is the Way – to live, to love and to lead people into the heart of his Father who passionately loves them.