Christian responsibility.

Sometimes our reaching out is about our journey and growth sometimes as well. It is not someone's sole responsibility to reach another person. God is always reaching his proverbial hand out to people and sometimes that "hand reaching" or "shoulder tapping" could be a coincidence someone is noticing, could be a Christian person coming into their life and the person just notices there is something different about them and is intrigued, or could be about actual evengelism where they physically hear the word from someone. I think its more our responsibility to "be there" to welcome them and support them. In my church, there were people who went to help when a hurricane came. It was just too a small area that other people probably would have forgotten about or thought it wasn't as bad as other places. And it really confounded them why these people would come and help. And subsequently, even though no word about Christ was spoken, it intrigued people to find out more about what made them tick, so to speak, so they either started seeking them out, or even one lady who was totally not interested even directed her neighbors who were searching. "if you want to find out about Christ - go see THOSE people".

I read the New Testament and there are only a handful of the actual teachings of Christ that exist. The teachings of Christ are what is to be published, and that has already been done. It is being done. Whenever you read a book that speaks of love, joy, the benefits of forgiveness etc, you are reading the teachings of Christ. Hundreds and thousands of people are doing that everday. Even I am doing it if I tell a person who is still hurt by someones behavior to forgive and to forget. I do not have to mention the fact that I am a Christian. Christ is not Christianity. Neither was Christ a Christian; He was a Jewish rabbi. Christianity is a religion cooked up by the Church. So if anyone comes to my door and tries to preach Churchianity to me, I will tell them I am not interested. And I won't run around preaching churchianity either.

But there are lots who refused to believe. And in such situation the individual must be responsible. But I don't like Hell being the controlling theme for the mission. The controlling theme is kingdom of God. I think we need to see it in the way the Scripture tells us to see.

The Bible was written almost 2000 years ago by men who never got past Grade 2 Level. These men were illiterate but they could tell stories. Tell stories they did, and many hundred of years later the stories were rewritten by men who never got past grade 4 level. This is because in those ancient times the teachers who taught the children never got past Grade 4 Level. Lets face it...The Bible is a Book of Myth! Much of it was copied from texts that existed thousands of years before the world is proported to have been created,- by those Illiterates who never got past Grade 2 level.This being the case, Why would any self respecting person, who is literate and has been able to get past grade 8, and has graduated High School and College,- why would this educated person Quote the Bible?