Showing posts with label Power of the gospel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Power of the gospel. Show all posts

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
C.S. Lewis 

Thursday, July 28, 2011

luke 6: 32 - 36.

you will be children of the most high because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

when you receive go's mercy, you become god's son while you are still wicked. jesus also say, 'if you are who are evil, know give gift to your children, what's more your heavenly father."

in the same line, same breath, you are evil yet you are beloved child.

is there any other religion, philosophy world thinking that say you are evil but yet you are belvoed child of god. no, but only in christianity you are both and tha'ts the key to be able to love your enemies
revolutionize understanding of sin. the power to love your enemies

luke 6:12-36: rhetorical game that jesus is plyaing, sinners vs evil.

he used the term sinners as if he agrees with the other that those unbelievers are sinners. "you don't want to be like sinner", "those are sinners" he goes along and use the term.

and he's calling as ungrateful and evil. this word 'evil' is stornger than sinner. So, he is saying, you don't want to be like those sinner, you're not sinner, you're evil!!!

when jesus talk like that, not only the unbelievers are sinner, the believers are sinner too. ungrateful and sinner.

if we don't redefine understanding of sin, we'll never understand the power of gospel.