I was reading the sword of the spirit and I saw that the authors had a kind of 10 step plan to being a christen. They said if you were to approach Christianity as a 10 step program it would go like this:
1. Encounter the Gospel
2. Realize there is a God
3. Admit that it is not you
4. Acknowledge that Christ is God
5. Admit that you are in sin
6. Realize that you need a Savior
7. Repent and Reconcile
8. Believe in the Gospel
9. Change the way you live
10. Share the Gospel with others so theycan encounter it.
Now I don’t have a problem with this, I can say that I could point out in my life the times that I realized all those things. But if I was to complain, which I am about to, I would say two many non Catholics use this as how you Become a Christen. I feel this is kind of wrong I remember once or twice maybe a thousand times when I was going Harvest Bible Church, the new Parkside Church Green Campus, when they said this is how you become a christen…like I need to carry a list in my pocket and check them off (like up I repented and now I believe the Gospel). I see it as a life process and journey. As a Catholic as Catholics we go though this process….with out a check list but with a life journey. In our lives when we are little we encounter the Gospel…
PSR/CCD teacher Why did Jesus come to the Earth
Kid in PSR To die and save us from our sin…
In very short terms that is the Gospel…Now the next part I think we do very early on in our lives, in fact the next 2 parts, when we are young at least I remember acknowledging that there is a God, then I also remember when my mom would say she was ALWAYS RIGHT I would say NO MOM GOD IS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS ALWAYS RIGHT… I feel that is admiting that you or even your parents is not God.
Now having a sisiter who was 3 years older than me I learned the transabsation at a young age (the bread turning in to Jesus Body and the wine turning into Blood.) I can remember there were these 2 old ladies and during that part in the mass I walked up to them and said do you know what is happening…and I proceed to tell them that the wine was turning to Jesus Blood and the Bread was turning into his Body… I know for a preschooler to know that was odd…but it was me…I am not very normal…Now the next part doesn’t happen until you are about 8 or 9 and that is going to your 1st confession where you say you have sinned…the next 2 parts sometimes happen in a flipped order, Repent and Reconcile sometimes happens before you realize you need Jesus our savoir. Because of your 1st confession being in the 2nd grade. But I know that the realizing you need a savoir can happen earlier in life to but in my life it happened in the oppsite order… I didn’t realize I need Jesus until high school (new about Jesus but I don’t think I NEW and LOVED Jesus like you should, I did it in the passive Sunday Catholic way not the x-treme Caflic way) but I had repented my sins before…the next 3 steps happened all at once in my life, at the Game Plan For Life…It was the 1st time I knew God’s love and I embraced it at full force…Then I changed my life, I distanced myself from some of my friends that were leading me far away from Christ…I stopped watching some TV shows…Then like all renewed Catholics I felt like I had to tell everyone…and I was ridiculed but it never changed me and I have kept running the race…this is how at least in my life how the 10 step programmed worked…It wasn’t all at once…It was a process just as it should be approached…
Peace and love
Bobby
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