You are currently browsing the category archive for the ‘The Crazy Things Christians Think’ category.
My wife and I watched the movie Risen the other night. All things considered, we thought it was a helpful film for Christians, at least. Two things stood out to us. First, the film reminded us how faithless the disciples were about what Jesus had plainly told them.
I trust you can relate, if you’re a Christian.
The second helpful thing was how crazy it would have seemed for people to believe that a dead man was walking around and alive, if you hadn’t seen him yourself. That’s when you look at the one who is proclaiming such a thing and say, “Yeah. Uh, huh. Wow. How about that?”
Giving voice to such a reality would make it seem like you are crazy, deluded, simple-minded, or some combination of the three.
The last few weeks, I’ve been writing about the crazy things Christians think. The topic I’d like to address this week, however, is not only a crazy thing Christians think but a sad one.
It has to do with what we call communion.
In last week’s post, we investigated the crazy interpretations we Christians have brought forth from Malachi 3:8–12. We discovered that we have taught that Christians should bring their tithes into what the Lord through Malachi called the “storehouse,” which we have somehow morphed into the word “church.” However, the New Testament clearly teaches that the “church” is people—not a building. So, the problem we need to solve is, how can we with integrity and honesty instruct people from Malachi 3 to bring their tithes to the church using this passage of Scripture?
What is one of the crazy things Christians believe?
That their church is a storehouse—you know, like for grain.
Here’s my story and then some common sense Bible refutation of this unbiblical belief.
Does the Bible tell Christians that their physical bodies are actually God’s temple?
It’s an amazing thing, but, yes, it does. By His Spirit, God lives in the bodies of believers in Jesus. To be truthful, most Christians really are not sure what that means—at least I don’t. But we believe it by faith.
The last place we will look at concerning the crazy belief that the Bible tells Christians to be healthy because their bodies are God’s temple is in 1 Corinthians. It is difficult to exegete, because one must deal with the entire context of the third chapter of that letter to understand it.
Oh, the crazy things Christians (like me) think. I confess. I am guilty of Lazy ChristianThink. I have no one to blame but myself.
However, I am trying to get better.
No, I don’t attend CTCTA (Crazy Things Christians Think Anonymous), but I would like to offer some insight, hopefully, into a misunderstood verse that has been passed down to us and we have lazily accepted.
The crazy-thinking verse is from Matthew: “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you” (Matthew 7:6).1
