Is it just me or what?
April 19th, 2005
Do we make Christianity too complicated.
Is it just me or what?
At it’s heart it has a very simple message, and requires a simple response. Somehow over the years we’ve over complicated the heart of the message. I think maybe because it’s all to radical and scary. To follow the Way is to be radically changed. Jesus’ example demands nothing less, but God provides his power for the change to occur.
And yet even though I say the message is simple I still don’t fully get it. Paradoxes abound.
I’d agree with you on this - often I know the right thing to do, but I don’t want to do it and then the whole struggle cuts in, and suddenly everything is “complicated”. The message is simple - it’s implications very far reaching, and that can be hard to understand sometimes, but there is often much I do understand but still never quite put into practice. A very challenging and encouraging post.
Yep, the gospel and all it entails and requires is a mysterious paradoxical balancing act. Thank goodness for grace and mercy.