Saturday, January 27, 2007
What does God expect us to do for other cultures and faiths?
I have met or experienced a number of different cultures and faiths in 17 years. Everytime I confronted those different cultures or faiths, I tended to neglect and criticize those. After I read the Scripture when I was about 14 years old, I found out that God wants us to do for other cultures and faiths is absolutely different from what I treated the other cultures and faiths. What we should do for other cultures and faiths is to become a model to share love with others as a representative of Christianity. At the same time, we should give respect to the different cultures and faiths. Simply, we should not reproach them because it is against love. Before we try to teach other cultures about Christianity, we should behave ourselves by showing and sharing love with others. By demonstrating love and care, Christian minds and thoughts will naturally change those different cultures and faiths that they will eventually become Christian. God expects us to be a model to demonstrate love and that is the beauty of Christianity. We should put all of our effort to be helpful and positive effects to other cultures and faiths. God wants us to teach them that He is the God who protects and takes care of them.
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Yeah, it's true that God wants us to be "examples" to the people that don't know Him, but sometimes, I feel that that's the hardest part of being a Christian. You need to consciously aware of the people around you. Say your a Christian but you cuss and poke fun at a lot of "losers." People around you are going to have a negative impression of you and just like that you lose all credibility of being a "model." I mean it can easiliy backfire is what I'm saying.
Hey Sean, I love your pic! Beautiful man! You are so right - being an example is really hard because we are still sinners and God has graciously forgiven us; consequently Christians are far from perfect. Actually becoming a Christian requires that you acknowledge that you are sinful and not worthy but through Christ we are made righteous. That to me is enough and I just have to keep trying to please God not man. Mrs.Mc.
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