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Psalm 34:8 "Taste and see that the Lord, blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!"
I have been kicking this around for a day. I think that I want to put this verse as an invitation to all Gen-Xers and Millenials (aka, like 35 and under). It is my invitation to you. It is the way we can come to the Gospel. Maybe even should come to it this way.
I put this as in opposition to a modern approach to the gospel. Quick review- Modernism heralds reason and science as the ultimate. So modern approaches to the gospel include an argument to the faith. Lee Strobel wrote a series of books known as "The Case For" series, including The Case for Christ, the Case for Faith and the Case for Easter. These books logically go down a list and take each argument against each subject and put it to the light, ending with the basic understanding that no thinking person can disagree with it.
Christian "tracts" that present the gospel are modern in nature- walking the logical steps from we are all sinners to the place that the only alternative is to accept Christ.
These things are not bad. I am not bashing them. However, these things do not really entice me to believe. Strobel might even agree with me today, as he wrote a book called "Reaching Unchurched Harry and Mary" and it seems to have little in there about logical arguments to the faith. A millenial can agree with everything you've said in your argument to the faith and then say, "that doesn't mean i'm going to become a Christian", basically saying, that's great that you can defend it, but i'm looking for more.
Taste and see- this is an invitation to me, to you- to all. Experience that Christ is good! Experience that Christ has more for you than the world. Taste and see. Test the water and find that abundant life from Christ is truly fulfilling! Find that he does forgive sins, experience that He died for you and what it means. Experience the life of faith.
Encounter Christ. Pharisees were not easily argued to faith- they knew the scriptures, many of them practiced the scriptures. what it took for men like Nicodemus was experiencing Christ's power first hand. He could not just hear of it, he had to encounter Christ. I feel invited by a verse that says "Taste and see that the Lord is good"
It is a call to people that just because we can prove our faith is right, you still must experience it in order to fully grasp. It is not a faith completely made up of logic and reason, thus logic and reason cannot be our sole basis for faith!
35 and unders- we are about the experience. I will not say you are right becase I haven't expereinced it. In fact, until I do, I will tell you that your faith is right for you, but not for me. Until I experience that Christ died for all, not just for those who currently are Christians, I will believe it is only for those people and other faiths are for others.
Taste and see- encounter, experience... God is good- our faith is the real deal!
I have been kicking this around for a day. I think that I want to put this verse as an invitation to all Gen-Xers and Millenials (aka, like 35 and under). It is my invitation to you. It is the way we can come to the Gospel. Maybe even should come to it this way.
I put this as in opposition to a modern approach to the gospel. Quick review- Modernism heralds reason and science as the ultimate. So modern approaches to the gospel include an argument to the faith. Lee Strobel wrote a series of books known as "The Case For" series, including The Case for Christ, the Case for Faith and the Case for Easter. These books logically go down a list and take each argument against each subject and put it to the light, ending with the basic understanding that no thinking person can disagree with it.
Christian "tracts" that present the gospel are modern in nature- walking the logical steps from we are all sinners to the place that the only alternative is to accept Christ.
These things are not bad. I am not bashing them. However, these things do not really entice me to believe. Strobel might even agree with me today, as he wrote a book called "Reaching Unchurched Harry and Mary" and it seems to have little in there about logical arguments to the faith. A millenial can agree with everything you've said in your argument to the faith and then say, "that doesn't mean i'm going to become a Christian", basically saying, that's great that you can defend it, but i'm looking for more.
Taste and see- this is an invitation to me, to you- to all. Experience that Christ is good! Experience that Christ has more for you than the world. Taste and see. Test the water and find that abundant life from Christ is truly fulfilling! Find that he does forgive sins, experience that He died for you and what it means. Experience the life of faith.
Encounter Christ. Pharisees were not easily argued to faith- they knew the scriptures, many of them practiced the scriptures. what it took for men like Nicodemus was experiencing Christ's power first hand. He could not just hear of it, he had to encounter Christ. I feel invited by a verse that says "Taste and see that the Lord is good"
It is a call to people that just because we can prove our faith is right, you still must experience it in order to fully grasp. It is not a faith completely made up of logic and reason, thus logic and reason cannot be our sole basis for faith!
35 and unders- we are about the experience. I will not say you are right becase I haven't expereinced it. In fact, until I do, I will tell you that your faith is right for you, but not for me. Until I experience that Christ died for all, not just for those who currently are Christians, I will believe it is only for those people and other faiths are for others.
Taste and see- encounter, experience... God is good- our faith is the real deal!
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