Friday, July 30, 2010

While we were in Deerborn we talked a lot about Islam. One thing that was brought up was that Muslims often just go through the motions. It started me thinking about Christians, do we just go through the motions? While I think most Christians would be quick to say that they don't, I think if we are willing to really think about it we might find that we to are guilty of doing that. We also talked about how Muslims have a lot of rituals that they perform, like kneeling every time they pray. We as Christians do thing like that as well. When a pastor says, God is good, everybody responds, All the time. As Christians we tend to criticize these things when we see them in other people but tend to ignore them when we see them in ourselves. We can't be ambassadors for Christ if we are really just fakes.

Back again.

I just got back from Deerborn Michigan. I was in Deerborn with a youth group from 180. We spent the whole week in a highly muslim neighborhood. While we were there we visited a mosque. The Imam explained some of the thing they believe. As he explained these things to us, it struck me. All these relationships we are making with these people won't last forever. Unless we show them the love of Jesus. Everything the Imam said he said as though it were true fact, it broke my heart to think that my new friends may never see the real truth. That God send his only son so they could live with him forever.