Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

# 16: Every evangelical is living out his christianity far below his/her potential. Paul said to the Corinthians, “Imitate me, as I also imitate Christ.” If evangelicals simply took this admonition seriously they would be as successful as       Paul. Impossible? Let’s look at it….

First of all, let’s define an evangelical. Attending an evangelical assembly does not make one an evangelical. An evangelical is one who has embraced evangelical Bible-plus and Bible-minus tradition. (Jesus: “In vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”)

Next, let’s define success. Paul’s success was accomplishing the assignments Jesus assigned to him. If you complete the particular assignments Jesus assigns to you, you will be equally successful. Imitating Paul isn’t     fulfilling his tasks but accomplishing yours. Amen?

Paul hated religion; to imitate Paul you must reject religion and never again finance evangelicalism. Paul’s “first love” was Jesus Christ (Paul: “To live is Christ”); evangelicals, to become an evangelical, dethroned Jesus as “first love”, and enthroned evangelicalism. To imitate Paul you must enthrone Jesus, once again, on the throne of your christianity.

Is that an unreasonable suggestion, to place Jesus, “the Lord of lords and King of kings”, on the throne of your christianity? Like really?