THE CONVERSATION ABOUT GOD IS DEAD
Because the conversation about God is dead, God has become a stranger to us. Nobody follows a stranger.
God is not dead. Indeed, God is very much alive. However, the conversation about God is dead. Killing the conversation about God is tantamount to killing God. The enemies of the Church know this. The Church does not. Can we devote 50% of the conversation to God? Is 50% too much to ask?
Furthermore, our preference for doing Christianity in its applications and not in its operating system is killing the conversation about God. IN COMPUTERS, THE WORLD CAN BE DIVIDED INTO AN OPERATING SYSTEM AND APPLICATIONS. SO, TOO, RELIGION.
The flow of love proceeds from Jesus to us and from us into our circumstances. Christianity is a bucket brigade of love. In other words, there are two stages to the flow of love.
The first stage is the operating system of Christianity during which the transfusion of love is from Jesus to us. This flow of love from Jesus to the children of Adam and Eve distinguishes Christianity from ordinary charitable organizations. From Jesus’s heart, our hearts receive a transfusion of love. The transfusion of love is invigorating. It vivifies us. It brings the dead to life (Luke 15:32)(John 3:3). Love depetrifies hearts of stone and transforms them into hearts of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26)(Luke 17:20-21). "We love him, because he first loved us"(1 John 4:19). Love persuades us to love. Words do not. LOVELESS CHRISTIANS CANNOT MAKE LOVING CHRISTIANS BECAUSE ONLY LOVE BEGETS LOVE.
The second stage in the flow of love is the applications stage. In the applications stage, we pour the sweet syrup of love into our circumstances to solve problems in the real world. Love applied to our problems is the solution.
Applications, however, do not run properly unless the operating system is installed, maintained and updated. Although many Christians have their favorite applications, few seem interested in the operating system of Christianity. The critical question in Christianity is always the allocation of resources between the Christian operating system and the Christian applications. For Christianity to work right, a healthy ratio must be maintained between the operating system and applications. WHEN WE NEGLECT THE CHRISTIAN OPERATING SYSTEM, IT GRINDS TO A SCREECHING HALT AND, WITH IT, CHRISTIANITY ITSELF. While Christians are busy attending to their favorite applications, who is tending to the Christian operating system? Who is installing, maintaining and upgrading it?
The operating system of Christianity is the foundation of Christianity. Get the foundation right and the applications take care of themselves. Get the foundation wrong, and the applications fall apart.
In these pages, we will concentrate on the operating system of Christianity not on the applications.
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