Maybe we really are in the end times but the opposite of what many people think. Maybe the Pope is giving us all (Catholics, Protestants, and Anglicans) one final example of humility and Christ-like action versus holding on to old tradition and obsessing if he uses the right mass or genuflects correctly. Will all of us as a universal Christian church humble ourselves or will we grasp on to tradition?
Amen.
“Maybe we really are in the end times but the opposite of what many people think. Maybe the Pope is giving us all (Catholics, Protestants, and Anglicans) one final example of humility and Christ-like action versus holding on to old tradition and obsessing if he uses the right mass or genuflects correctly. Will all of us as a universal Christian church humble ourselves or will we grasp on to tradition?”
I’m terrified of the prospect. I don’t view it as “Christ-like” action, but rather as unChrist-like misdirection.
The Gospel isn’t about what YOU can do for CHRIST, it is about what Christ has done for us. Certainly, we have our duty to our neighbors. If a man asks us to walk a mile with him, we should walk twain. But this is not the Gospel. This is not the primary message of Christianity. Whether we walk with a man an extra mile doesn’t matter if he is still going to hell after all is said and done. It is this false focus on works, which every other religion and charity group on the world promotes, except Islam of course, is dangerous insomuch that it is likely to lead even more people astray.
This is the chief sin of the “Emergent church” and social justice groupies here in the States.