For the Spirit filled/ led Christian, "Jesus (not a particular Christian denomination /is) is The Way, The Truth and The Life." No one will/ can ever figure God out 100% in his or her lifetime. One thing is certain though: "People will know we are Christians BY OUR LOVE." The Sin of Presumption. This particularly insightful concept is introduced in Chapter 7. Whenever Christians of one particular denomination begin to think that their way is “the way,” then presumptuousness lies at the door. Colson articulately points out that this attitude is a perverse form of Gnosticism and is nothing more than the horrible sin of exclusivity. He writes on pages 86 and 87: "The belief that there is but one method or formula by which to enter the kingdom is what we call the sin of presumption: presuming to know the mind of God and to program by human means who is or is not secure in the faith and hence in the church ...” and “When we regard our own methodology as normative, we eventually question the faith of those who do not conform to it. This presumption, so contrary to biblical teaching, is a major cause of the disunity that plagues and cripples the witness of the church.”
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 03:35:59 +0000
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