Commitment to Christ? Commitment to Christ is the very reason I can't say anything nice about those who take the focus off Him and put it on something or someone else. Hitler? Are you kidding me? Mother Teresa? Her attitude was that whatever god you served was good enough. I can't even imagine how many souls were lost because she wasn't honest about the only way to salvation. And the Catholic Church and it's "magnificent architecture" and "Objects D'art"? Not hardly.
We're talking about people and their destiny for eternity. Every one of those you mentioned have taken away from the focus on Christ alone. Christ and the apostles didn't go around teaching how to build "magnificent architecture" or create "Objects D'art". They taught a simple gospel of belief and faith on Jesus alone as the only hope of eternal life with Him while denouncing all the earthly pomp and grandeur.
My commitment IS to Christ alone and what will last for eternity. All that "magnificent architecture" and "Objects D'art" will end up in ashes and rubble as it always has in the past.
Dang. Beat me to it.
Thank you for proving me spot on absolutely 100% correct.
Colossians 1:27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Philippians 3:8-9 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
1 Corinthians 1:30-31And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 2:2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.