Did the church miss the point

So the church started 2000 years ago and exploded into the known world.

Why

They brough a message of love, of hope, of faith that brough about change for the good. Before we know it we are reading of horrific battles and acts of murder in the crusades all the the name of Christianity.

What happened to the love, the hope and the faith that was supposed to bring about change for the improvement of the world.

Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Are we as Christians doing this. What has the church got to do with it and has the church missed the boat?

Love to hear your comments.
Steve

Post-Modern Jesus

Christianity is one of the world's largest religions, so the rational conclusion is that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who, if you asked them, would say that they are Christians (yes, my logic is astounding). But (as Steve said, there is always a but) being 'Christian' has become such a broad term these days that it is difficult to know its true meaning. I suppose it originally meant that you were a follower of Jesus Christ. However, even Jesus has a variety of connotations in this post-modern world. The views of Jesus range from one extreme to the other: for some Jesus means the soft-hearted, open-minded teacher; for others he is the war-creating, oppressive, judgemental patriarch of an out-dated religion. I am no expert on post-modernism or theology, and these are just some casual observations that I have made. It has got me thinking... because people view Jesus in different ways, they probably view Christians in different ways, and if people have different perceptions of Christ, then how should Christians behave as 'Christ followers'?

Do we have the right?

Honestly, I find it a bit worrying when people like Harold Camping give an exact date for the end of the world/the Rapture and he says that he has 'proof'. I feel that it could create the impression that all Christians feel the same way and that we all believe that it is going to happen on the same date. I've even heard about a billboard in Johannesburg where a church has said that the world will end on a certain day and that "the Bible guarantees it". Can we REALLY make statements like that? What impression does it create to people who are not Christians?

So what would you take????

So you know that like... they say that when you die or get raptured or whatever that you can't take anything with you?

Well imagine that you could.
Imagine that you got to take just three things to Heaven with you.
What would they be?

For the sake of this arguement - you can't take people...

Sooo????

THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!

Maybe you care, maybe you don't?

But you probably have an opinion? Is the world going to end and if so, WHEN????

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