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I ran into this on the Internet. It speaks volumes to me about my search to say or find what I think are both the stumbling blocks and possible foundation stones of the future of a Christianity that travels along the road of life into the 21st century and beyond.
The words out of context hit me between the eyes and I have to consider them as something to think about on my travels on that road of life.
I also have to consider them as from a “homeless guy”, not unlike Jesus or the Apostles – and on that homeless man’s blog.
The line that struck me most and as a Cultural Christian that I took greatly to heart was about the Fundamentalist Christian messsage:
“...Instead of having a relationship with God, they have a relationship with the Bible...”
That is something worth repeating in any conversation these days about the road that Christianity travels into the future or into oblivion.
More from the article and the article itself for your reading:
“The Bible is not perfect, and there is plenty of reasonable proof of its imperfection. But, really, does the Bible have to be perfect? I don’t think so. God is still God, with, or without it. For some, though, their faith is founded on the Bible... Instead of having a relationship with God, they have a relationship with the Bible. And instead of developing a life in relationship with God, they spend all their time trying to defend the Bible, defend their faith, defend “Christianity,” etc., etc. But, God needs no defenders. God is perfectly capable of defending himself, and desires for us to instead spend our lives doing His will. A real Christian is not one who makes signs to the world that they are Christian, but is one who feeds the hungry, shelter the cold, provides for the needy, etc. A person who spends all their time trying to convert the already converted, and ignores or neglects their needs, is nursing a dead faith.”
- Kevin Barbieux
http://thehomelessguy.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/thoughts-on-the-bible/
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