The Christ

"Where can we find the Christ of history?" Certainly not in a lot of what we see in Christianity today. The Christ that we hear of so often these days is one of a strange Deity that meets my needs, rather than an all powerful God who has saved us, by his choice. In reading the scriptures we have to be honest with ourselves, "How often did we see the disciples imprisoned, persecuted, harangued and isolated. Yet no where do we see any cry for self." This has got to be a challenge at the very least to all of us. The challenge to me personally is to walk in the love of God and the hope of God in spite of my circumstances and the cards that I am dealt. It is not easy and I will falter along the way, but clearly if we are to walk as HE did we have to see a change in the western church. A change that aligns us with the first church rather than the culture in which we live and are driven by.

"I wonder of the power of the Church if we lived in the shadow of the Almighty rather than the radio control booth of God?"

We are living in a time when we want our own canon for everything from sexuality to birthright--why not our own canon of the Scriptures as well? Every generation will try to do the same, and attempt to bury the Scriptures, but we will keep finding its resurrection. For it has as its cornerstone one who knows the way out of the grave.

To all of you who are reading this I consider it an honour that you would even take the time to read this. You are special to me, but even more special to God, who does have your best interests at heart.