Tag: Church
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Seeking Dominance
Jesus never asked us to defend Christian values. He wants us to live them. The church, Christ’s body, is not to be the architect nor enforcer of particular behaviors for the world at large. We are to love our neighbors, rather than by law and legislation to dictate how they must live. Unfortunately, for decades…
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The Jesus Vaccine
Vaccines have become oddly controversial. Even so, I don’t want to give them up as a metaphor that I have used to make a point about Christianity in America. When I came back from Tanzania, where we saw about 7,000 people begin following Jesus over the course of eight years, people thought that I might…