Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Is Christianity all about being nice?

Matt Walsh warns that Jesus Christ is not Mr. Rogers. Being nice is not the essence of Christianity.
If you had to sum up Christ’s message in one word, it wouldn’t be “nice”, and it wouldn’t be “friendly”, and it wouldn’t be “polite.” It would be “love.” Jesus didn’t just preach love, He showed it. He demonstrated it. He died in agony, bleeding on a cross. There was nothing nice about it. But it was the greatest act of love in the history of the universe. Love isn’t always nice, but it is always sacrificial. It doesn’t possess or take or steal; it only gives. Love is not love if it isn’t true, moral, right, just and courageous. Love isn’t love if it doesn’t come from God.

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