He Is Risen!
Today is definitely resurrection Sunday and it honestly makes my heart sing to realize that our Saviour finished his work on earth when he rose from the dead and saved us from sin for all time!However, it gets me to thinking, like it was said in church this morning that the entire Christian faith rises and falls on the thruth of the resurrection of Christ.
The part that got me thinkning was the way that we often present ourselves to the world is as an option; basically a group of people saying "Why not us?" in the religious realm. If it comes down to the fact that I believe in a faith that rests on the returning of a perfect man from the grave, then why do I believe in it?
Seriously, I asked myself today, "Why am I not a Buddhist, a humanist, a New Ager or even a Scientologist?" I have often thought that if I didn't believe in Christ that the first faith that I would default to would be humanism because I can still believe in right and wrong, don't have to follow it all the time and it makes sense in a logical way.
Now, I'm not saying that I have lost my faith or anything, but out of curiosity...
What made you decide to follow Christ?
I'm not looking for a "serious", "theological" discussion, but just simply an idea of why people chose Christ among all the other options out there. It can be an encouragement to the community of believers when we sit back and realize just what God has done for us. I know that every Christian out there has a story or one thing that "clinched" it for them and I'd like to hear about it!
So "hop" to it...
posted by theDING @ 15:57
4 Comments:
Well, I asked myself the same thing a while back. See, I grew up in a major "bible-belt" community, so it (Christianity) was all around me. I think god used that to reach out to me, but when I got older He challenged me as to why I worship Him. He has proven Himself to me time and again, and there is NOwhere else I could go, for I would be so lost without Him. I decided that even if my expectations of eternal life are wrong He is still the only One worthy of worship.
Pretty vague I know, but that's what you get for now.
I know why I am not a Scientologist, who wants to be like Tom Cruise?!?!?!?!
But honestly, it is a good question that every one needs to struggle through, mine struggle is why am I not a Catholic, then the question comes, why am I in the church that I am in. Why would I commit myself to this. I know the answers to these questions, but if I had never asked myself, I would be floundering. Ask yourself the hard questions that you ask o fthe church, because you are the church.
cheers
anna
Congratulations!!!
Well, some of you know why I chose Christ, if you don't you can read my second blog entry, and God proved himself. There was that journey that I was on, that perhaps was necessary to get me to where I am now and where I will be going. Now some may say, 'but why would God let you not be a Christian?' as if he prevented me from it, but He didn't.
God has shown me the way of love by waiting for that opportune moment to finally make the big confession that he loved me, but all the while, like a guy pursuing a girl, he was dropping hints and doing things, most, if not all, I did not recognize as his doing. But he did them still. What a picture of love I have been shown in my life, that is why I follow Christ.
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