Curious Christian

Is your faith robust enough to handle leaning from interaction with other religions? Or do you fear any openness to learn or intellectual humility would undermine your or your community’s faith in Christ? Remember, we know what faith is, not only through Jesus’ teaching to the Apostles, but also through reflection on his encounters with humble Pagans and Samaritans.

Is your hope genuinely holistic, encompassing the redemption of culture and the earth? Or is it reduced to forensic justification, acultural rapture and disembodied soul survival? Remember, we know what hope is, not only because Jesus was resurrected from the dead, but also because he dreamed of a resurrected earth where God’s will would be done, from which injustice was forever exorcised.

Does your love extend to genuine incarnational living amongst the unreached, amongst pantheists and pagans and agnostics? Or is it an abstract thing, limited to praying from a safe distance, or risk free monologues from home territory. Remember, we know what love is, not only because Jesus died for us, but also because he touched the untouchables and ate with the alienated.