Comments on: Is that all there is?

By: Brian Eberly

Brian Eberly — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:55:52 +0000

How tragic. I sure hope that not what my students are hearing for me. “Take up your cross and follow me” means a whole lot more than pray a prayer so you can get into heaven and get stuff.

By: Johnny Brooks

Johnny Brooks — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:20:58 +0000

We do need to be simple in our approach to Jesus, but the whole born again thing as it is marketed today is not what Jesus had in mind, at least in my opinion. Jesus was a revolutionary, and revolutions are simple. You fight against the prevailing power or culture. In the Bible James wrote that true religion is to reach out to the homeless and loveless, that is what it means to me to be a Christian or Christ follower.

By: Tony Myles

Tony Myles — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:40:37 +0000

So many times we become concerned with the perks of the atonement that we never become people of the atonement and extend it out into the world by how we live.

By: Sunnygt

Sunnygt — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:35:24 +0000

Can we back up a moment? We were examining a teenager’s simplistic answer. Maybe I am way off, but a thought occured to me … didn’t Jesus say we ought to come to Him as little children? In the spiritual the teenager is on a journey and as he/she matures, hopefully their christian walk matures as well, yet we as children learn from our parents and other adults around us. We might be sending out the wrong messages to our teens today, maybe not. However simplistic or pat the answer appeared, the teenager did come to the answer as a child would. I think Jesus would be very encourging to the very young and teens in this day and age.

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:13:10 +0000

Living as a Christian here and now means my whole life has been turned on it’s head. When I became a Christian it meant that I understood why I was here. What used to be a life about ME ME ME, God has shown is all about HIM, giving him the glory by loving and serving him and other people. By no means do I think I’ve got this following Jesus thing down pat, it’s a struggle and a joy at the same time.