The Way
By Bob Radcliff
“When I am having a conversation with people and the discussion turns to God and the Bible, as it almost always does, I often get asked, “What denomination are you?” The answer to that question goes all the way back to the first century A.D. and the very beginning of Christianity itself.
The puzzling thing is that the Christianity that most people practice today is very different from the Christianity Jesus taught to those first 120 people (Acts 1:15 KJV) who were lead by the 12 apostles He personally chose to establish His church. So when they hear the truths that we have learned from our own Bibles, they sound foreign to what they’ve heard before; it’s different somehow.
For some their question is posed as if they had encountered a strange insect on a walk in the woods searching for something familiar by which to categorize it. “What species or family of creatures is it? I’ve never run across anything like it before so help me to file it in the proper box in my mind.” They struggle to fit the plain truth of the bible into the ideologies they have been taught by today’s traditional religious leaders and though certain elements may ring true it doesn’t quite fit in with what they already believe…”
(this article is an excerpt from the March-April 2017 edition of the Sabbath Sentinel)
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