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What if… … Jesus and early Christians never could have imagined (or hoped) that being a Christian would become anything but being radically counter-cultural, persecuted (by the principalities and powers), marginalized, and yet altogether joy-filled and attractive (as a community)? … There are those who are powerful and significant in God’s eyes — and don’t even know it? … Christianity is more about who we are when we’re not at church? … Christianity was never about “church” at all — but a collection of lives sold out for the worship and mission of their Creator? … Our faith and any of the competing power structures (the political arena, in particular) are diametrically opposed to each other? … We have more to learn about the person of Jesus from the poor, sick, and young than all the PhDs in the world — combined? … The message of Christianity was as much about the first 25 chapters of Matthew as it is about the last three? … all we needed was God? … Christianity was never intended to be a religion? What if we’ve been missing the point all this time? Tags: discipleship, questions, Jesus, Christianity
Original content by: http://harvestboston.net/20061023/what-if/.
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