What are 3 issues you feel we have within Christianity?

[George]

Just put only 3 issues please. I'll add mine when I'm not on my phone.

 

[Rens]

No unity in the whole Body, lukewarmness and sin, immaturity, in the West. No sense of urgency.

 

[Tigger]

Wow, I think Messy summed it up pretty well.

 

[psalms 91]

Messy did a good job

 

[Lamb]

3 issues within Christianity today...

1) Confusing Law & Gospel which eliminates the real need for the Savior
2) Confusing Law & Gospel reducing sin to something people think they can manage but fail at, thus reducing their need for the Savior
3) Confusing Law & Gospel putting so much emphasis on law and reducing the Gospel so that no one gets to see the brilliance of the Savior.

 

[ValleyGal]

1. Forcing God's will on a society that does not choose him (such as anti-abortion, forcing prayer in schools, etc)
2. Being a lousy representative of a beautiful Christ (do they really know us by our love?)
3. Agreement with Lamb about confusing law and gospel, which undermines the freedom for which Jesus came to set us free...

 

[Josiah]

Just put only 3 issues please.

1. Egoism. People considering self to be ever-so-smart, actually quite good, and the ONE whom God guides and teaches - and (more importantly) the ONE who is the perfect follower and student. Self don't err. Self don't need no Savior. Self pats self on back.


2. Individualism. Rome instilled this into Christianity, but the Enlightenment is even more to blame. Self looks at self in the mirror. A rejection of community and an obsessive focus on self. SELF is the ONE God leads and teaches.... and more importantly, SELF is the ONE who is the infallible follower and student. It's all God and ME with no sense of God and WE. A rejection of community, history. This often includes struggles for power/authority of self over others, struggles for supremacy over others, "lording it over others as the gentiles do."


3. Unaccountability. This is largely the goal of the above two problems. Everyone ELSE can be wrong (and is!) but SELF has the power, the authority, the smarts, the wisdom, the Holy Spirit, the right interpretation of things... SELF is the one protected by God, lead by God, taught by God. Again "self" can be an individual person or an individual church/denomination/cult.



These 3 are why there has never been just one denomination, why East/West began warring almost immediately, why there have been no true ecumenical councils in 1200 years, why there is no means of arbitration beyond each individual denomination for it itself (and often not much there), why we are beginning to see ancient, condemned heresies returning. And it's getting worse, not better. And when it's addressed at all, the mess is replaced with something far worse: relativism and a denounciation of truth. We aren't going to address the mess Christianity has gotten into ( a process that probably began in 30 AD!) until we address the 3 points above. It's what I'm all about.... as I hope is OBVIOUS from my posts here and (in the past) at other sites; these are the 3 issues I address.



Pax Soli Christi


- Josiah





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[visionary]

Church teaching that it is the only way...

They believe that Jesus merely made the way open for salvation. In order to enter into that salvation, one must live in obedience to the authority of the papacy. In addition, Jesus' provision for salvation not being complete, the Roman Catholic church offers other means to assure one's salvation. The Roman Catholic church says it alone can grant this essential blessing for full salvation.

Christianity is not keeping up with prophecies, the spiritual nurturing that matures us for His return.

Our strength is in our faith, and by the looks of things, we are weak in numbers, in singlemindedness for Him, and in living according to His faith.