Thursday, January 20, 2005
Acts, Just Like Me
The Primer On Church History post on Confessions of a Jesus Phreak has given me a new (and much needed) look at the early church and the apostles.
I see that the early Christians, many who had walked with Christ himself, were imperfect sinners just like me. I never saw them as perfect to begin with, but I always had this nagging thought that they had a better salvation than I did. That they had some kind of direct line to the heart and mind of God that is disconnected today.
I thought that Pauls statement in Romans and Timothy were simply words from a humble servant. Surely a great apostle who saw Christ himself never had to battle the natural man that is always wanting to go his own way, always wanting to sin.
I see now that he was simply dealing with the same problems I am now, he was just working out his salvation.
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I see that the early Christians, many who had walked with Christ himself, were imperfect sinners just like me. I never saw them as perfect to begin with, but I always had this nagging thought that they had a better salvation than I did. That they had some kind of direct line to the heart and mind of God that is disconnected today.
I thought that Pauls statement in Romans and Timothy were simply words from a humble servant. Surely a great apostle who saw Christ himself never had to battle the natural man that is always wanting to go his own way, always wanting to sin.
I see now that he was simply dealing with the same problems I am now, he was just working out his salvation.
# posted by Joe Florida @ 1:56 PM 
