Have you lost your way?

Christianity has lost its way, just as assuredly as the Jews in Jesus’ day had lost their way.

Most Christians use Old Testament measures to gauge prosperity – wealth, health, and longevity – even though Jesus was poor, famished, and died young.

Most Christians also point to the importance of having strong family ties, even though Jesus told us that our worst enemies will be those under our own roof, and that your real family are those who do the will of God, whether they’re related to you by blood or marriage or not.

There’s a profound disconnect between what is being sold to us as Christianity and what Jesus demonstrated as Christianity.

These disconnects are temptations, and we need to see them as such. (more…)