We now sadly have pastors all across our country that preach a different Jesus than what is in the gospels. These pastors go unchallenged because the majority believe in the false Jesus that is preached. People love the non-confrontational Jesus of Progressive Christianity. The Jesus who never condemns or calls people to repentance. That is the Jesus that is predominant in American Christianity. The universal Savior of all and condemner of none… unless you disagree. You know, a simple reading of the gospels will tell you that Jesus calls people to repent. Yet, when you point that out people go out of their minds… like a KJV Only at an NIV convention. If you don’t know that reference trust me, it’s bad.
You preach hate!
That is often what I hear. No, I simply preach what the Bible says.
Pastor, which Jesus do you preach on Sunday morning? A good man? A good teacher? A good prophet?
Or do you preach who He truly is? The Messiah, the God-man, the only hope for redemption?
One will get you fame, the other gets you condemned in our culture. I’ll leave it up to you to discern which.
My relationship with Jesus has changed drastically over the past 8 years. I originally accepted him as God and talked/prayed to him daily, I wanted nothing more (in my mind) than to please him in every way… then as I studied Judaism (and other things) I switched to believing he was only a Rabbi, just a good teacher, no longer did I believe he was God-incarnate… next, I stopped believing in him all together. I believed for a while that he was completely made up… But, more recently (after further examination and study) I do believe there is enough evidence to prove that he existed, that he was a real man… but, that’s where I’ve stopped, not where I’ve ended necessarily, just where I’m at at the moment. I currently need more evidence or a different perspective to accept that he is God. I wonder if anyone else has had this type of on/off relationship with the one they call The Christ?
This is my point exactly on the doctrines of affection. Jesus Goodman is a someone everyone can get behind. But the Bible is clear, Jesus is more than just a good man. Do we submit to the whole of Scripture or just the parts we like?