To My Facebook Friends

To My Facebook Brother in Christ….

Just a few words from someone who cares. Regarding established evangelical christianity, you and I see the same absurdities. But you are missing a key element…. the answer. The evangelical must know the alternative to evangelicalism. If he/she is not directed to a better way it may be an act of kindness to say nothing.

So I gently say that that’s the difference between us. I know and preach the only true alternative to religion and you do not. My very first writing was entitled “A Catholic No More”, a message to born-again catholics clinging to their catholicism, this to their serious detriment. While pointing out the folly and dangers of that religion, I simultaneously pointed them to the alternative, that alternative being the person of Jesus Christ. My subsequent writings also pointed to Christ. In one book, “The Way It Is”, directed to evangelicals who likewise cling to their religion, I point to the same alternative, the Lord Jesus.

You see the problem but you don’t seem to comprehend the answer. I conclude you don’t know the answer because you don’t know The Answer. You don’t know Christ who is the one and only alternative to religion (and every other entrapment). That is to say, you are not intimately connected. You may be “born of the Spirit” – I like to assume you are. Perhaps you are one of most who have left “first love”.

To evaluate your relationship with Christ, check your memory. Like me and like all, you speak the overflow of your heart. Have you spoken Christ recently? Have you spoken to Christ recently?

I rejected evangelicalism to recapture the strong devotion to Christ I once had. No more following the crowd who are following the crowd. Today I am one of the micro-minority who follow Lord Jesus, and for this blessing I am grateful. May I ask, precious one, who/what are you following?

Bear with me as I offer a suggestion: START OVER. I’m talking re-commitment. The starting place to a better life is always Jesus Christ. Make sure Lord Jesus is your Lord in fact…. that He is the One you are, in your here-and-now, following…. that you are, in your here-and-now, serving, obeying, living for…. that He is indeed “first love”.

Now, after that beginning (or re-beginning) make it a daily habit to recommit your entirety to Jesus. Very important. Had that been your custom your relationship today would be much healthier and wealthier. You would be more content. And you would be a greater blessing to those you influence.

And, when you feel the nudging of the Spirit, you can “be about [the] Father’s business”. The church of Christ desperately needs reformers. Sadly, “the laborers are few.” Reformation requires voices “crying out in the [spiritual] wilderness” declaring, “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” It is apparent these voices must be from outside institutionalized christianity; those on the inside have proven themselves unfaithful; salaried culprits have brought Christ’s people into religious bondage and have no heart to set them free.

Thanks for listening.