Living as a christian, I often hear questions like,
- You dun really look christian to me.
- Gospel is the only truth in life, why do research which is something that is fake...
- We should live a different lifestyle as what our non-christian friends lead.
- What's important to me is the second coming of Jesus.
There are lots of other questions that I have came across but these are the ones that stuck in my head.
For Qn 1, saying that someone don't look christian, aren't we making a judgement on them?? by doing this how are we different from those pharisees in the bible.... we as christian as what I believe shouldn't be judgemental but to be encouraging to each other in our christian life and not being self-righteous.
For Qn 2, I actually got it hit right on my face, I told Michelle that this sentence came from a guy that I admire. it happened like this.... after coming back from a christian conference, this guy shared with me what he has learnt. he said something like gospel is the only real thing in the world and hence other stuffs that happened on this earth = fake. and he gave example like research... we did research for so many years and publish lots of journal papers... in the end wat do we get out of it??? our papers will just be put into a folder and no one is going to read it.... is n't it a waste of time to do it/??? and rather the whole thing is pointless and fake....
seriously i feel really hurt after listening to it... well i have to clarify something.... not all researches are trying to prove the inexistence of God or rather the BIg Bang Theory..... researches cover areas like renewable energy, self-cleaning etc. and of course I know that the gospel is the real thing. well aren't our life real as well??
I feel that what's important is having our life to be christ centered in whatever we do. and of course the word "inspire" can be match with different words. like inspire by the professors or inspire by the words from the gospel.... why should anyone think that the word inspire should be match with gospel all the time.... To me, "I have been inspired by the word of the gospel that is why i can boldly preach to others about this good news = evangelising" but what i can't understd is when I said that i am inspired by the old professors during the chem engin conference that I have attended and others tell me straight in my face commenting that, "I thought ppl can only be inspired by gospel and not other things" I was like "wat the......." the one making this sentence, aren't you being self-righteous????
Qn 3, living a different lifestyle? yes agree, i believe in spending time with God and listen to his word. but on the other hand, i have came across christian who take drugs, drink like there is no tomorrow and club all they want. are they consider christian? well is not up to me to judge but God. but one thing i must say is that the bible did quote from some verses like we as christian should not do the above constantly. A non-believer actually told me that she dun understd why she should be condemned and her frens (christian) who do all these nonsenses should be save.... I just told her that I do not have the answer for it but I told her that we should not compared with others and think tat we are better but to have the idea that we are already a sinner since birth as we human rejected God. well if we are to call ourselves christian we should refrain from doing all those..... and not making up excuse for those who do it and said that we humans are not perfect tat's why we need God in our life. if we do need God in our life should n't we refrain from doing all those bad things the moment we receive him????
Qn 4, i really admire those ppl who say that. however i have come across others that dine do well in their work and when ask why do they not put in effort and they replied to us this sentence. I mean the bible clearly said that, we do need to work and back in Genesis God works too. we have to work even harder so we will not be an obligation to others. if not by saying this sentence is just finding an excuse to his/her laziness which should not be the case. Jesus second coming to us is a huge event but since we are still living in a sin world, we have to work even harder.
well these are my thoughts. do not misinterpret what i said. I dun wan to be bombard with senseless comments.
I will make myself clear. Gospel is important and Jesus is the only way to be reconcil with God. I really thank God for sending his son to die for my sin which i dun deserve. I am waiting for Jesus second coming and at the same time work hard in what i have been given and not be lazy.
