I was talking with a group of friends last night about Christianity.  It was abundantly apparent that to define the term Christianity in certain terms was difficult.  Difficult I think, because it’s become so watered down that it’s depth and richness is all but lost.  In the words of N.T. Wright, as he was relating it to Christians that had made bad choices and done horrible things, “…they were muddled and mistaken about what Christianity actually is.” This does not excuse us but is of course a challenge to search and dig for the actual (or “secret” as Mclaren calls it) message of Jesus.  I’m sure we’ve all met people who say they were mistreated by Christians, or perhaps you are the Christian that did the mistreating - in any case we do ourselves a disservice when we throw the baby out with the bathwater so to speak.  We need to understand that people (even Christians) make bad calls and forgiveness is often required.  The message of the gospel accounts for this!  But more than that, this morning I’m struck particularly by the fact that Christianity has come to mean so many things to so many different people.  Have we become that muddled and mistaken?!  If so, what do we do to get on the right path.

 Any thoughts?

(*in case anyone is wondering, the N.T. Wright book is, Simply Christian.  I’ve just finished the first section so I can’t comment on the whole book just yet.) 

 

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