OnEarth
6th December 2005, 12:06 PM
Based on the topic of the Jesus is my homeboy T shirts it has opened a good position for me to state what I am seeing with the church the youth and followers of a older generation. I will start by posting my quote and what I had to say about the T shirts.
This is a good example of how the older generation is loosing the younger generation. Homeboy TODAY means close friend to the young. Not slave boy. How do you all know who is saved and who is not? You assume that the people wearing them are not. I think that there is nothing wrong with this shirt. Christians want to keep God in the closet(church). When in fact that isnt where he is. Christ is everything in everyone. So the fact that non christians are wearing these shirts is a good thing. If the people wearing them are bad. Would you rather they wear a sinful shirt and promote that? Because that is what you are saying. I think that this is just another fight for the next christian to seem holier than thou. Christians these days are so into claiming everything wrong that they lose sight in what is good and there focus become negative instead of positive.
I will begin with the fact that so many are consider unsaved because they do not attend church on a daily basis or they do not run around in a constant preach mode.
To be saved you do not have to attend the church 24/7.
To be a christian you do not have to attend the church 24/7.
What is the church to you?
Allow me to give you the defintion.
Church: A building for the public especially christians.
So the church is a building of worship and fellowship and that is where it stops.
It is not where God begins or ends.
Lets look at how God is defined.
God: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
So as God is defined meaning our Lord and saviour Christ. He is in control of everything around and is not confined to one building. In fact he could very well be inside that child you believe to be unsaved. So that would mean you put forth judgement against God.
The older generation do not agree with commercializeing our lord. Well with so many making the devil and sin a commercial in a subliminal form. Where is the wrong in making our lord known in any form we can? Should we just back down and leave God in the church and amongst each other? I would much rather see the unsaved come to know that God is great, and cool and at the sametime your friend. Rather than them shy away from him because they have been unjustly judged and sentenced to hell by people in the church that do not know them. That is like looking through a window at a pair of shoes and saying they do not fit without you trying them on.
This does not apply to all but it does apply to the majority of Christians I have seen. That much is a fact.
This is a good example of how the older generation is loosing the younger generation. Homeboy TODAY means close friend to the young. Not slave boy. How do you all know who is saved and who is not? You assume that the people wearing them are not. I think that there is nothing wrong with this shirt. Christians want to keep God in the closet(church). When in fact that isnt where he is. Christ is everything in everyone. So the fact that non christians are wearing these shirts is a good thing. If the people wearing them are bad. Would you rather they wear a sinful shirt and promote that? Because that is what you are saying. I think that this is just another fight for the next christian to seem holier than thou. Christians these days are so into claiming everything wrong that they lose sight in what is good and there focus become negative instead of positive.
I will begin with the fact that so many are consider unsaved because they do not attend church on a daily basis or they do not run around in a constant preach mode.
To be saved you do not have to attend the church 24/7.
To be a christian you do not have to attend the church 24/7.
What is the church to you?
Allow me to give you the defintion.
Church: A building for the public especially christians.
So the church is a building of worship and fellowship and that is where it stops.
It is not where God begins or ends.
Lets look at how God is defined.
God: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
So as God is defined meaning our Lord and saviour Christ. He is in control of everything around and is not confined to one building. In fact he could very well be inside that child you believe to be unsaved. So that would mean you put forth judgement against God.
The older generation do not agree with commercializeing our lord. Well with so many making the devil and sin a commercial in a subliminal form. Where is the wrong in making our lord known in any form we can? Should we just back down and leave God in the church and amongst each other? I would much rather see the unsaved come to know that God is great, and cool and at the sametime your friend. Rather than them shy away from him because they have been unjustly judged and sentenced to hell by people in the church that do not know them. That is like looking through a window at a pair of shoes and saying they do not fit without you trying them on.
This does not apply to all but it does apply to the majority of Christians I have seen. That much is a fact.