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How Christianity is viewed?

“Christianity has become bloated with blind followers who would rather repeat slogans than actually feel true compassion and care. Christianity has become marketed and streamlined into a juggernaut of fear-mongering that has lost its own heart.” -Anonymous-

“Christianity’s image problem is not merely the perception of young outsiders. Those inside the church see it as well–especially Christians in their twenties and thirties. I was unprepared for the research showing that Mosaic and Buster Christians are skeptical of present-day Christianity.” -“UnChristian” by David Kinnamen p. 18-

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Rain

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“When the rain come. It’s not like they might. They do. It rains in our lives….a lot.” – Rob Bell
I love that line from this video and actually the main reason that I feel the need to blog about this. Rain will come. Storms will come in our lives. You can’t stop them from happening, they just do. The last couple weeks in the sunday school class that I teach we have talked about this every now and then. We talked about it in the story of David and Goliath and this past sunday when we talked about Samson. You see in life there is a path that we are on. Everyone has a path, and sometimes roadblocks get in the way. So, if you can’t stop something from happening. What do you do about it?
In life your gonna make mistakes. Just like rain, they are going to happen. So, what do you do when you make mistakes? Give up? No, when it rains do you stay inside all day everyday that it rains? No, you get an umbrella. Mistakes are gonna happen. In life we are going to fail. That’s not the point though. The point is that we were created by a God that is all knowing and knows everything little you and I are going to make, but He still loves us and has a future for us!
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” – Jeremiah 29:11
When it rains you get an umbrella and and when you fail you realize that you are still loved by God. You always will be. Always.
Here’s a thought to chew on. No matter what mistakes you make in life or how many you fail, God will ALWAYS be there for you waiting to support as you go on. He is always with you and He will always love you. Always. You can fail everyday of your life and yet He will still love you!

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How Christianity is viewed?

“Christianity has become bloated with blind followers who would rather repeat slogans than actually feel true compassion and care. Christianity has become marketed and streamlined into a juggernaut of fear-mongering that has lost its own heart.” -Anonymous-

"Christianity's image problem is not merely the perception of young outsiders. Those inside the church see it as well–especially Christians in their twenties and thirties. I was unprepared for the research showing that Mosaic and Buster Christians are skeptical of present-day Christianity." -"UnChristian" by David Kinnamen p. 18-

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Rain

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYKa9E1xzao&hl=en&fs=1&]
"When the rain come. It's not like they might. They do. It rains in our lives….a lot." – Rob Bell
I love that line from this video and actually the main reason that I feel the need to blog about this. Rain will come. Storms will come in our lives. You can't stop them from happening, they just do. The last couple weeks in the sunday school class that I teach we have talked about this every now and then. We talked about it in the story of David and Goliath and this past sunday when we talked about Samson. You see in life there is a path that we are on. Everyone has a path, and sometimes roadblocks get in the way. So, if you can't stop something from happening. What do you do about it?
In life your gonna make mistakes. Just like rain, they are going to happen. So, what do you do when you make mistakes? Give up? No, when it rains do you stay inside all day everyday that it rains? No, you get an umbrella. Mistakes are gonna happen. In life we are going to fail. That's not the point though. The point is that we were created by a God that is all knowing and knows everything little you and I are going to make, but He still loves us and has a future for us!
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." – Jeremiah 29:11
When it rains you get an umbrella and and when you fail you realize that you are still loved by God. You always will be. Always.
Here's a thought to chew on. No matter what mistakes you make in life or how many you fail, God will ALWAYS be there for you waiting to support as you go on. He is always with you and He will always love you. Always. You can fail everyday of your life and yet He will still love you!

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Going Public-courtesy of Davids Bucket

Christ has no body on earth by yours,
No hands but yours,
No feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion for the world is to look out;
Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;
And yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.
–Saint Teresa of Avila
“Living out our faith privately was never meant to be an option.” The Hole in our Gospel, pg. 3.
I found this two quotes on my brother David’s blog, “Davids Bucket” If haven’t read anything from Davids Bucket I encourage you to do so. It’s an inspiring blog! www.davidsbucket.com