Categories: just-life
Date: 19 October 2005 17:09:44
Someone recently said that if you went to the local ice-cream parlour on a Sunday afternoon and asked who there was a Christian the majority of people would raise their hand. I said that this was rubbish, as the majority of people there would be British, and being British we would ignore anyone who walked in and then demanded that people raised their hands. I think I'm right.
Apparently this week is National Religion Week and so on Radio2 they had the discussion on whether we as Christians in this country stood up for our religion as much as we should. Afterall, if we accept that Jesus is "the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (Jn 14:6) why is it we don't stand there and say that.
Our's is the true faith and all other faiths are false paths.
It's a small sentance, but it's a big one...... with it, you are saying that a lot of people are wrong, not only wrong, but not heading to heaven. While we could say it, it is very disrespectful to a lot of people, it's also very unBritish......it's very rare for us to be able to stand up and go "we're right, you're just wrong, :p" if we can stand there and be very lukewarm and very; "that's interesting, yes... hmmmmm......."
There will be some people, I'm sure, that might suspect that we should be more of the former and less of the later, but I disagree. We are a society that is very open to those who have different thoughts and views and this is a good thing.
Here endeth the lesson for today!!!!!
Well, apart from a small story I saw, where the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, compared prayer with sunbathing...... I shall let him tell us in his own words;.......
"I'm not one for sunbathing, too much lying around and I get fidgety and a bit guilty. But there is something about sunbathing that tells us more about what prayer is like than any amount of religious jargon.
"You not going to get a better tan by screwing up your eyes and concentrating, you simply have to be there where the light can get at you."
(actual words from "Pause for Thought" radio2 HERE)
And now the lesson has endeth!!!!