Showing posts with label Christian behaviour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christian behaviour. Show all posts

Thursday 6 May 2010

Not liking your Christians

"I do like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ!"
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)


And he has reason to say that. If more Christians would do what Jesus told them to do, and how God wants them to behave and handle, there would be less problems in the world.




Dutch version: Niet houden van dat soort Christenen


Mohandas Gandhi gave rise to a whole new gener...
Mohandas Gandhi gave rise to a whole new generation of nationalists, and a whole new form of revolution. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Saturday 18 July 2009

No time for immorality

"Christ had no time for immorality, and neither has any Bible-based church. Chastity, honesty and truthfulness are all musts for the genuine Christian.

At the same time, Christ hates self-righteousness, hard-heartedness and unkindness. He condemned the smug bunch of Pharisees who were looking down their noses at an adulterous woman - and then he rebuked the woman, 'Go, and do not sin again.' John 8:11.
Christ and fhe Adulterous Woman
Christ and fhe Adulterous Woman (Photo credit: Wikipedia)



The lesson of this story is clear. Christ hates both sorts of sin: the hidden sins of the heart, like the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, and the more obvious sins, like the adultery of the woman.

So we must constantly fight against 'internal' sins, like pride, and covetousness, and unclean thoughts; but we must fight equally hard against the 'external' sins, like cheating the income tax man, gluttony, and lying our way out of a scrape.

But this is only the negative side of Christian behaviour - the 'thou shalt nots'. Equally important, maybe even more important, are the positive traits listed in Galatians 5:22-23. 'The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.'"

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Brother Alan Hayward
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