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Saturday, November 17, 2007
Christian Vs. Christ Follower
I was at a meeting this week where one of my colleagues talked about his memory of doing sword drills as part of his youth group experience and I was reminded of this video. Sword Drills was a game where the leader would call out a biblical citation: Luke 3:27 (or any other) and people would race to find it and then the winner would read it aloud. In essence it was a game that promoted the idea that s/he who knew how to use their bible the best was the winner.
Its odd for me to look at it this way. If I accept that we live in an age of Christian illiteracy - then I need to ask how this game helped develop followers of Christ. It seems to me that somewhere along the line we've lost the common unifying factor we once had: Jesus our Christ. We've gotten caught up in the debates of the 80's and 90's arguing over right and left; conservative and liberal; correct and wrong; and somehow lost what being a Christian was/is all about. To put it simply and succinctly, Christianity is about living out ones faith in Jesus our Christ. Notice though that there are three components to this definition, all of which are essential. There's "living out;" "Faith;" and "Jesus our Christ." Without any one of these Christianity becomes nothing more than an elitist social club where the members claim moral superiority over others. Christianity = faith + action + Christ. Simple, yet so difficult.
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