To: loftyheights
"If Luther and Jesus were alive today and the only churches going were these megachurches, they wouldn't go!"
I disagree, Jesus always spent time at the synagogues preaching. And as you know these werent generally friendly audiences.
It would be my hope that he would do the same today.
To: wallcrawlr
That's true (though we're all guilty of a little speculation here). Jesus drove out the money changers and those selling animals in the Temple, charging they had turned it into a den of robbers. He was not pleased with the commercialization in His own day.
30 posted on
10/02/2003 9:08:58 PM PDT by
Lexinom
("No society rises above its idea of God" (unknown))
To: wallcrawlr
Good point. Perhaps He would go. But probably just once. He would be too boring or say something offensive and not condusive to growth.
Some who visit my church get offended because of the confession of sin ("I, a poor, miserable sinner, confess unto Thee all my sins and iniquities with which I have ever offended Thee and justly deserved Thy temporal and eteranl punishment..."). "You made me feel like a heathen" is a comment I have heard more than once. To which I politely respond, "Well, I'm sorry, but that's kind of the purpose of the law, to humble us."
The same synagogues which Jesus frequented were full of the same people who felt threatened by His teaching of total depravity and grace and eventually put Him to death. Remember, it was the clergy who rounded Him up. I guess they were what Jesus refers to in St. Matthew 7 as "false prophets".
37 posted on
10/02/2003 9:31:07 PM PDT by
loftyheights
(Lutheran Loft)
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