It's very true that people miss the center of Christianity. The most fundamental theology you should ever have in terms of Christianity is this Sunday School song that has been around since there was Sunday School:
Jesus loves me, this I know For the Bible tells me so Little ones to Him belong, They are weak, but He is strong
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so
Simple as it is, it covers all the bases: Jesus loves me, so I should love Him back, and in my entirely egocentric condescending elitist attitude, the "little[r] ones" than I belong to Him as well, so He loves them too. So, since I love Him and He loves them, the transitive property suggests that I should love them too, which completely debunks my whole egocentric condescending elitism. Since they're weak, I'm weak too, but He is strong!
Basically, Jesus came to bring about the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets (the Old Testament), which He said could be summed up in two commands: love and obey God, and love people. If we acknowledge Jesus as our Savior and thereby see the compulsion to obey Him, that becomes the meaning of our lives: the rest of the gospels are just examples of what that looks like, and the rest of the New Testament addresses common issues that come up when we imperfect humans try to accomplish that. It really is a sort of handbook to life.
Anyway, I appreciate your comment and your compliment. It's a perplexion: humbling and encouraging at the same time. Thank you very much. ^_^
Jesus loves me, this I know
For the Bible tells me so
Little ones to Him belong,
They are weak, but He is strong
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so
Simple as it is, it covers all the bases: Jesus loves me, so I should love Him back, and in my entirely egocentric condescending elitist attitude, the "little[r] ones" than I belong to Him as well, so He loves them too. So, since I love Him and He loves them, the transitive property suggests that I should love them too, which completely debunks my whole egocentric condescending elitism. Since they're weak, I'm weak too, but He is strong!
Basically, Jesus came to bring about the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets (the Old Testament), which He said could be summed up in two commands: love and obey God, and love people. If we acknowledge Jesus as our Savior and thereby see the compulsion to obey Him, that becomes the meaning of our lives: the rest of the gospels are just examples of what that looks like, and the rest of the New Testament addresses common issues that come up when we imperfect humans try to accomplish that. It really is a sort of handbook to life.
Anyway, I appreciate your comment and your compliment. It's a perplexion: humbling and encouraging at the same time. Thank you very much. ^_^
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