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How many times have you come across this quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi? “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” I must have read it a hundred times in books, magazines, articles, tweets. It is used by believers and unbelievers to point to the hypocrisy of Christians and to call us to more and to better. Our inability to live what we preach is driving the multitudes away. Or so we are told. After all, that&#;s what Gandhi said.
We need to stop using this quote and I’m going to give you two good reasons to do so. In the first place, Gandhi was hardly an authority on Jesus. When he says, “I like your Christ” he is referring to a Jesus of his own making, a Jesus plucked haphazardly from the pages of Scripture, a Jeffersonian kind of Jesus, picked and chosen from the accounts of his life. He certainly was not referring to the Jesus—the true and complete Jesus—revealed from the first page of Scripture to the last. He did not refer to the Jesus who stands reading with a sword of judgment, the Jesus who made unwavering claims of his own deity and eternality, who declared that he was and is the only way to be made right with God. Jesus the good man, Jesus the teacher, Jesus the moralist, perhaps, but never Jesus who was an
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2. Why did Jesus Die?
How many of you have friends or relatives that wear a model of a guillotine around their necks? Or maybe even an electric chair? Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? But how often in the Western world, do we come across people who have a cross around their neck? We are so used to seeing the cross around people's necks that we don't think about it, but the cross was just as much a form of execution as a guillotine or an electric chair. Why do people wear a cross? The cross was one of the cruelest ways of execution ever invented. Even the Romans, not known for their human rights, abolished crucifixion in AD considering it too inhumane. The cross has always been regarded as the symbol of the Christian faith, and a high proportion of the Gospels are about the death of Jesus. Much of the rest of the New Testament is concerned with explaining what happened at the cross.
When the apostle Paul went to Corinth, he said, "I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified" (1 Corinthians ). When we think of Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, Mahatma Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, we think of what they did in their lives, how they influenced society by what they did. Yet when we read the New Tes
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