Likewise, many Christians pray loudly and serve publicly just so everyone can see how godly they are being. However, this is specifically forbidden in Matthew chapter six, which states, “Do not be like the hypocrites, for they like to stand and pray… that they can be seen by others.” The church as a whole is ignorant of this verse in practice; quite often, prayers are said for the benefit of one’s own reputation, not one’s relationship with God. In this way, Tartuffe accurately symbolizes the Christian church from an atheist view. Orgon, on the other hand, represents Christians, or church followers. Orgon had loved Tartuffe like a son, and he had bought in to Tartuffe’s display of religiousness.
There are people who live in a secular world, worlds that is non-religious, but who identify, in their hearts, with Christianity. They are a breed of people who are challenging the Church to become ecumenical in its thinking and if the Church will not get out into the community to help others this group will be found doing the work of the ‘Church’. Pastoral Carers and/or Ministers have challenging roles that must include these Christians who will most likely never come into their Churches. The inclusion of these people will exemplify the most powerful form of love that could ever exist, a love that is unconditional and a love that does not come with wrong motives. The traditions of man must give way to this new generation of worshippers, worshippers who are not frequenting the Church but are in the communities helping, reading ‘spiritual’ books to help them learn about being great people, and having a relationship with God.
Oscar Cruz Jr. Cruz 1 BG Guttierez ENGL 2327 23 February, 2012 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God In the story Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God in holds a sermon on how your life should be led to with several techniques he tries to grab your attention with his grace and how you would go to heaven. Not everybody believes in god but in my point of view I believe that with the will of the lord everything is possible. Jonathan Edwards throughout the readings tried to scare the readers on how god can do things to people or grasp their life in any part of their time. It shouldn’t be understood in that way because in the bible I reads that god will come for you at the time he is ready. There is no need to be scared to go to heaven because heaven is a better and more peaceful place.
This is a precarious title considering the fact that on page 37, Mr. Fay actually says that it is “perfectly OK” for a Christian to have fear when sharing their faith. He even makes mention that the Apostle Paul went to share his faith in “weakness and fear and with much trembling,” which is an allusion to Paul’s words to the Church at Corinth in 1 Corinthians 2:3. Bill Fay also states that he cannot promise the Christian that their fear will “go away completely” when they share the gospel, but that it will “get easier”. With this being said, maybe a better title for the book would have been the converse—“Share Jesus WITH Fear,” but alas, that probably wouldn’t sell as many copies because many Christians are more interested in doing that which is easy rather than that which is
Luke 6:27-28 (NIV) states, “But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.” The Bible was taken out of context and used to expand power and influence for those usurping power over the body of Christ rather than the Crusades being honestly used to advance Christ’s kingdom. The scars caused by the majority of these Crusades are still bleeding today as the conflict between Islam and the rest of the world continues on when mission’s work is what was truly needed at a time the church chose to carry the
Lot of persons don’t want to escape from the cage that it was created around them from the Christianity beliefs. Maybe they are using God just as an example of perfection that they can relay on, or maybe it is for them an example of supreme power that could give help and support in difficult moments. We should not forget all the way that Church made during time, and that all those proofs that gave credibility to Christianity may be all false. If god, as the father of human kind, would have existed, he wouldn’t let all those catastrophes to happen (Katrina, 2004’ Tsunami, and many others…). What kind of father would be the one that let its children to die in such terrible ways!?!
In this same song, “Well, see what you want to see, you should see it all”, refers to Christians only seeing the good in God and only credit him when great things happening without acknowledging the bad things, such as disease and natural disaster, as being His fault. Religion puts blinders on people. In, “Parting of the Sensory”, the lyrics say, “We put all our chips in all the right spots but still lost” , which is another example of people praying and doing everything that the Christianity religion tells them is right but still are plagued with bad things in life. Another song representing this same idea is, “3rd Planet”, which says, “Your heart felt good , it was dripping pitch and made of wood. And your hands and knees felt
We are not allowed to choose what we like to worship and rejected what we do not like. We cannot just worship God for what he has done but also for what he will do. The ideal state of worship is to be close to Isaiah like he was in chapter six of that book of the Bible. When we are lost we need to seek (and hope to find) the holiness of God and become aware of our sin in order to truly worship. Instead of going through the motions at church, we need to truly focus on what we are worshiping.
A lot of Christians fear of looking at themselves on the inside because they are afraid they will become very self-absorbed. The Bible states “We all fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). The biggest issue with a fallen human being is denial. Christians are often advised on only focusing on Christ rather than evaluating themselves. Things that should guide people towards repentance could potentially keep their focus looking inside themselves.
As far as I can remember as a child I would always get a sensation of remorse whenever I was doing wrong, and that was before any explanation of doing wrong was. I believe that certain feeling is your soul, consciousness telling you that you are committing a sin. Life pointless or is there a purpose? Life is a journey full of obstacles and barriers; I also believe it’s a hallway with different choices of doors to creating your path, which the Lord has planned for you. As a Christian our lives are to serve and obey God’s Laws his commandments and the purpose is to get into heaven.