Gospel Vids

 

Skeptics Welcome. Really.

 

I love the book of Luke. I love it. Right now I am studying and writing on it. Recently, Matt Chandler began a series on the it and I listened to the first message tonight. Great stuff. He mentioned that Luke was a skeptic and had followed everything about Jesus (eyewitnesses and writings) and he himself sought answers. Apparently Village  Church will be in the book for a year and a half. Here is a small excerpt towards the end of the sermon:

Anyway, in the end if religion had a motto, it would say this, “I obey, therefore, I’m accepted.” That’s it. That’s religion. Whatever belief system you want to get into, that’s it, but that’s not the teachings of Jesus. Religion says, “Morality and religious observance are means of salvation,” but that is not the message of Jesus. Religion says, “We’ve got it right and everyone else be damned,” and Jesus says, “You love the Muslim, you serve the Muslim and if necessary, you die for him. You love the Jew, you serve the Jew and if necessary, you die for them. You love the Hindu, you give up your food for the Hindu, you open your home to the Hindu, you sacrifice your own life for the Hindu.” Jesus says, “Love your enemies. Don’t just love your friends. How easy is it to love your friends? Even killers do that.” I mean, this is a crazy man here. The stuff he teaches, it is not religious in nature in any way historically as religion had been defined. The teachings of Jesus go contrary, now not necessarily what Evangelicals teach and do but the teachings of Jesus – they’re very, very different. 

- Matt Chandler in “Skeptics Welcome”