As I read through my last post, I wasn't sure that I was completely clear. The thing is that I believe that we the subject is bigger than can be contained in a blog or two so I'm going to write a book and you can get a copy of it...wait, no I'm not. I would, however, like to clear up what I meant by agenda.
Our agenda, as followers of Jesus, cannot be to get people to join our church. It should never be to get people to do what WE want them to do. It cannot be to change people into what we think they should look like. It should not be to change their sexual orientation. It should never be advertised as something that it is not. It cannot be to get them to join our small group. It is never to be to get them to read better books and it absolutely cannot be to somehow earn the love that we are going to give them.
Our agenda is to be to show them Jesus. This means loving without strings attached, but means sharing the message of who Jesus is along with that love. Not in a way that preaches or shoves down the throat and not in such a way as to have to always get in a word about Jesus. It doesn't have to be on the sign and it doesn't have to be the first and the last thing that we say. But the message should at some point turn to Jesus.
Hopefully this makes my message a bit more clear.
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