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Behind the Smoke

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Sometimes i think the greatest impediment to finding Jesus are people who claim to have ‘found Jesus’. Nietzsche said: “the last Christian died on the cross”, and Mark Twain said: “If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be–a Christian.” I think religion has subverted the Jesus movement, and misinformation about what a Christian is, has poisoned a lot of hearts.

Some questions (please respond):

  1. Is the idea of church a lost cause?
  2. Is it inevitable that whenever a group of Christ-followers get together they’re going to sour the freedom that Jesus tried to bring?
  3. What is the essence of an authentic Christian and what makes him or her any different from those who don’t claim to be Christians?
  4. Is the church a lost cause–what should it look like/feel like if it were what it’s supposed to be?