We lack less a Christ “ology” (the bible is plain enough) as we do a credible living Christ witness. And that blame can be laid squarely on the shoulders of modern Christendom, at least until they choose to lay it on Christ’s shoulders and beseech God to help do something about it.
Are we LIVING like an extremely sacrificially loving Lord is our Lord? Sadly so very often the answer is turning out to be no....
When Christians live up to the light revealed to them already, God will reveal more.
People these days are experience junkies and simply want to experience the latest spiritual fad high.
None of that laying one’s life down for a friend stuff, or going the extra mile. Just affirm everyone where they’re at, make them feel good about themselves, offer a risk free, soft, comfortable, health, wealth, and prosperity preaching and forget counting the cost.
People aren’t coming to Christ because we aren’t holding up a Christ worth coming to.
You’re right, we have made Him our righteous Savior, but too frequently we Christians forget about the Lord part, the obedience part.
i think without a biblical Christology it is entirely impossible to have a credible living Christ witness. If you do not understand who He was/is and what His message was/is, you cannot be like him. If you miss that His miracles were for authenticating his deity, you might be tempted to think His “good words” were no more than the good works of the Pharisees. Understanding that Scripture is the foundation for all of our belief is essential. Faith requires the right object or it is a false, doomed faith.
The Lordship of Christ is a most necessary concept. Many a false believer is formed through the promise that faith in Jesus as your Savior from the consequences of your sin will give you a heavenly eternity. But it leaves out repentance, that is, faith in the Lordship of Christ. Christ as your Savior is not offered without Christ as your Lord. He rules over the hearts of those who are His. Actually He rules even over those who are not His, but they do not acknowledge it — yet. In the end every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Jesus as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
The problem with today’s “Christians” is that they have turned back to the way of the Pharisees — they practice a form of righteousness before men, of good works and religious rituals, but their hearts are far from God. They love the world. They love sin. They are lovers of themselves and lovers of religious deception. They have no love for Truth, purity, righteousness, etc. There is no pursuit of holiness because they despise and defame holiness. They do not love what God loves but rather what He hates. Christ is not their Lord. The praise of men is their Lord, therefore they go out even to extremes (like Mother Theresa), seeking to prove themselves worthy. But they embrace the lies of the Devil and prove themselves unworthy to God, only worthy to religious frauds who value the outward and not the inward.