Soapbox Chonicles - Lyn Eagleton Ever feel like you’re not ‘Christian’ enough to fit in with Christians, yet too Christian to fit in the world? It’s kind of a bizarre feeling. It’s also a lie. If you’re saved, you’re saved. Period. I was raised kind of Catholic; that is we attended catechism as children. I don’t remember much of what I learned except the fact that the church itself was a beautiful work of architecture and the nuns probably went to primary school with Moses. My husband was raised sort of Mormon. His family ran a dairy so there wasn’t a whole lot of time for church, but nonetheless they called themselves Mormon. I came to know Jesus as my savior in a Baptist church after a rather lengthy speech on how horrible hell was going to be. The pastor simply said to imagine our worst day on Earth so far… in a split second, every horrible thing that I had endure thus far crossed the forefront of my mind. He had my attention. “That will Heaven in comparison to hell.” Afire that burns without consuming. I ran down the aisle. My husband came to know Jesus as his savior in a Pentecostal church. And those folks are so good at making you realize how badly you need a savior because you’re such a lowlife, my husband got saved every week for months. Fast forward a few years. We attend and ‘non-denominational’ church which just basically means they claim not to have a man derived doctrine. All churches have a doctrine they function by and it is in these doctrinal differences that we find most Christian conflict. I believe in the gifts of the Spirit, and that they are just as relevant and necessary today as they were in both the Old and New Testaments. I have friends who don’t believe they are a today thing. I believe that God gives these gifts to whom He sees fits, as He sees fits according to what is needed at the time. I don’t believe everyone who believes in the gifts is given the gift of ‘speaking in tongues’, yet I have friends who will question your salvation if you don’t ‘speak in tongues’. Ive been turned away from one church for not being dressed appropriately. I figured being covered up was good enough. I have Christian friends that question my salvation because I listen to Toby Mac and T-Bone, wear jammie pants and Jesus tees to church, dance on my walks to KJ-52 and openly tell people my very personal story of how deep God had to reach to save me. I don’t pray out loud or in tongues. Occasionally I raise my hands in worship and I try to attend every Christian rock concert that comes nearby. It is for those same reasons that my non-Christian friends think of me as a crazy, right winged, fanatical Bible thumper. Regardless of what y’all think of me, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God loves me like crazy. So much so, that he offered up His Son to pay for all my sin. Not some of it, not just the sin I committed prior to Salvation; ALL of it. Knowing this leaves me with the choice to either believe ALL of His word or not, because to reject the parts I don’t like is to reject it all and since He didnt partly save me, I’m not gonna partly believe Him and His word. I gotta be ALL in. And what I believe works for me as much as what you believe works for you. No, youre not crazy. Just a little different. Lets get to the core of the Gospel to find our common ground and love each other there instead of judging each other on doctrine, God is good all the time and all the time God is good. :) Clay preached on something along these lines today at Believers Church.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 21:03:12 +0000
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