as some of you may know at the start of this year i decided to abandon everthing i thought i new about faith and start again from scratch - everything i had previously believed was up for grabs.
i had hit the reset button.
this left me with some fairly major questions. for instance, 'what is a christian?' i promised myself i would take on no ones opinions but christ. if he didn't have an opinion on something then i didn't need one either.
last week some of my school kids asked me, 'so who gets to go to heaven?' - my initial urge is to sprout of the answer from the bank of answers i have stored neatly in my brain - 'if you ask jesus into your heart then you get to go to heaven.' but i'm not allowed to use my neatly stored bank of answer anymore because just can't quite remember who put those answers there.
so i turn to the words in red - to the man who put the 'christ' in 'christian'. and i find the passage of the sheep and the goats (matt 25). sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell. simple enough. so how can i be a sheep? answer - feed the hungry, invite in strangers, clothe the naked, visit the sick and those in prison.
so that's it. christ summary on who gets to go to heaven. what is absent from this passage is as startling as what's in it.
to ask christ into your heart is to ask the poor into your heart.
do you fit christ's definition of those who are saved? i bloody hope i do.
-charlie
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dangerous thinking guys, but oh so awesome when we see the answer isn't it?
Funny, i have spent the first 8 years of my christian walk trying to stop doing certain things to be more christian, only now am i realizing jesus is far more concerned that i start doing other things....
what an amazing challenge to his church!
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