Hm, I think that it could be productive, though. Kierkegaard wrote a lot about how being born into Christendom could delude people into thinking they were Christian—the idea being that "Christian" is a religious concept, having to do with an encounter with Jesus and the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, not just a certificate filed away in s…
Hm, I think that it could be productive, though. Kierkegaard wrote a lot about how being born into Christendom could delude people into thinking they were Christian—the idea being that "Christian" is a religious concept, having to do with an encounter with Jesus and the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, not just a certificate filed away in some bureaucrat's office. So maybe now, with all the social supports falling off, the people left will be the ones who really do seek Him.
Those people in the talk, for example: their worldview has no real need for Jesus. Political victory at all costs is the absolute antithesis of seeking the Kingdom not of this world. One wonders why they bother with the Christian thing at all, seeing as it has no real interest for them. And I expect that one day soon, they will not bother, which may well improve the integrity of the Church.
Absolutely. It will, of course, ostensibly become more arduous to follow Christ as Christendom recedes further into the mists of time but as our Lord has said "narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!" I suppose that was true even when the vast majority of us westerners professed Christianity.
Hm, I think that it could be productive, though. Kierkegaard wrote a lot about how being born into Christendom could delude people into thinking they were Christian—the idea being that "Christian" is a religious concept, having to do with an encounter with Jesus and the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, not just a certificate filed away in some bureaucrat's office. So maybe now, with all the social supports falling off, the people left will be the ones who really do seek Him.
Those people in the talk, for example: their worldview has no real need for Jesus. Political victory at all costs is the absolute antithesis of seeking the Kingdom not of this world. One wonders why they bother with the Christian thing at all, seeing as it has no real interest for them. And I expect that one day soon, they will not bother, which may well improve the integrity of the Church.
Absolutely. It will, of course, ostensibly become more arduous to follow Christ as Christendom recedes further into the mists of time but as our Lord has said "narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!" I suppose that was true even when the vast majority of us westerners professed Christianity.