I'm finding more and more people my age who have grown up "christian" and yet, are scared to admit that they have questions and doubts about whats been TAUGHT. Why are we (christian collective) so nervous to admit that we may be lost amongst our own faith? Doesn't questioning refine truth? Why do i feel like im faced with frustration when i ask fellow christians where they get their definitions of the basic definitions of our faith from? (faith, love, holy spirit, revelation, etc.) I ask, not (usually) because i think i have a better answer and i want to chop someone down, but i honestly want to know. I want to know if we (collective) are using words to its true biblical definition, or, by its christian culture definition, potentially misinterpreted and misunderstood. 'Cause if theres a whole handful of a "churched" generation that, after 20 odd years don't have the confience in the general preached doctrine to stand by their beliefs, then we may need to wipe the slate clean and start with the Bible, read in context.
Reconcile is a word found in scripture, which, in dictionary terms, suggests "coming back to" or "living in harmony with."
2 cor 5
16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
So, in short, i'm trying to figure out how to "go, and do" reconciliation. I'm learning, it starts with me no longer sitting and waiting.
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good post, nicole. reminds me of our conversation from the other night. i NEVER say this to anyone because it sounds cheesy, but you inspire me. honest. :)
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