Soccer is like church. Many attend, few understand

as I was going to sleep I was watching a program that claimed the KKK was backed by the bible..shesh how far from the real truth has certain cultures become in our world...... Has our own church strayed from the real truth of the gospel..something so simple yet so hard to ingrain in our nature, to love our neighbors as ourselves. This was the answer to the question "what is the number one thing I can do to be a God loving person. a person with God's spirit within me." I feel like our churches have really sided with the verses claiming we are saved by faith alone...but what about the works..

"you have faith; I have deeds" show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.- James 2:18

this has been a debate for years but is crucial to understanding of course works alone will not save us but faith is demonstrated through works...take money for example, where the pipeline of someones treasures goes, so you will find what he/she desires or deeds. Simply replace he/she with the your Church. I am ashamed to see the results of some..

-Makind wants glory. We want health. We want wealth. We want happiness. We want all our felt needs met, all our little human itches scratched. We want a painless life. We want the crown without the cross. We want the gain without the pain. We want the words of Christ's salvation to be easy. ---John Macarthur

this is the "American dream" something that is not the dream of Christ's children..for we must kill this dream. this is the materialistic dream that blocks US children from seeing God's dream for us...this is the complete opposite dream for which we were built..
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this is the new dream..the dream we must violently strive for because it is the reverse our human nature.

-But seek frist his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Mat 6:33



sometimes I would like to ask God why he allwos poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it."

"well, why don't you ask Him"

"becuase I am afraid He would ask me the same question."

I think for me here it is important to understand our faith is essential to being "saved" but our works is what makes our faith tangeble for others. something we are called to do..something our faith brings out in us something our Churches sometimes have not brought much attention to.