The Bible is a story about a God who journeys with His people through hard times even when it is God who has unleashed the judgment ... God walks with God’s people through the valley of the shadow of death. He doesn’t snatch them out of it... Our love for the rapture reveals a lack of love for the very world Jesus came to save. The very idea of the church abandoning the world in its time of need is endemic of an American Christianity that is more focused on the self than the needs of the other, more gnostic (concerned with right ideas) than actually Christian, and hyper-focused on the hereafter to the detriment of the here and now. Yes, the Second Coming is important – but so is everything that happens before... Let us live as if these truly are the last days, not by running around telling the world “Good luck, we’ll see you later!” But by incarnating the love of God to a world desperately in need of His grace.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:47:29 +0000
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