Absolutely. Christianity as a “social convention” is about logistics.
Logistics: the planning, implementation, and coordination of the details of an operation.
So, what happened to Christianity is that as it moved to the center of society and became a part of culture, the things that made it incredible and compelling were removed so that it could be [...]
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Sherlock Holmes walks in revelation, knowing through keen observation how things happen and why people have done things and where everything is going. Poor Watson is in the dark most of the time and in the end, after Sherlock explains everything he sees it and remarks how simple it all really was.
“It is so much easier to sit in darkness than to gather enough wood for a fire.” “What is truth? If you take away the right to question you turn Christianity from a rushing mighty wind into a windowless room full of stale recycled air.”
I was asked to do a funeral for a homeless man’s brother. He is a great man, this guy James, he’s just been through some hard knocks and leaned on the wrong things. We’re not so far away from where he is at, not really. It’s just that our vices are more acceptable.
Some of my darkest days have been when I woke up with the knowledge that most of the things I believed and said I stood for were just concepts and theories that I was not actually living, and not only that I wasn’t living them, but that I hadn’t forged any avenues to apply them.
True Christianity is about making disciples, which is a relational concept. Can the megachurch accomplish the original mission of Christ if they cannot successfully sustain true relationships? How can a message of financial prosperity, a lavish lifestyle of pastoral fame, and opulent, multi-acre “church” campuses embody the message of a peasant, homeless Messiah, with twelve intimate followers whose last command was to “make disciples”?