“A lot of US churches teach a version of the rapture that leads many suburbanites to believe that they will go straight from their air-conditioned houses or their air-conditioned SUVs to heaven.”
That is the best line I’ve read yet.
Wanting Christ without the Cross makes God sound like the purveyor of jelly-belly beans and unicorns.
Thanks- I’m a fellow traveller who would prefer to die of old age whittling on the porch but suspect that may not be the case...
I’ve struggled my whole life to live up to the grace I have received. I’m a failure at being a “good Christian”.
But, I cannot deny what I know to be true- God will give me the strength to claim his redemption through Jesus Christ whatever the earthly consequences.
Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.