Desire To Live

The next few days will be mighty hard to blog with my schedule so I will resume my blog on pastoral adultery when i return in a few days. For the mean time... I was looking over some past journaling and I came across someone asking me the question. "Why are you a Christian?" These following posts are my reply. I wrote this back in 2005, less than 2 years after I became a Christian.

Sin
I look at my life like a wall, where you can hang pictures and paint and such. After a while the wall starts having nail holes everywhere and is useless for future decorations. But, to me, the death and resurrection of Jesus signified a rebirth or washing, which made that wall new again. Jesus is the artist. He cleans up the mess every time. I feel very lucky that I found such a great friend to do that for me, as a free gift. And a good thing too, because God says that if I even have one hole in my wall, I won't be used for his work. That wall will be used to demonstrate God's glory, his work of art, and you better believe he won't start with a bad "canvas."

Religion
I'm not a big fan of religion. People who are Christians are people who believe in Christ's teaching, and follow what he says. So if someone asks me what religion I am, I tell them Christian. I have no shame in that. But, when that statement is followed by asking what denomination I am, I usually give a sigh. Why? well, I think everyone has to be a Christian on their own. Noone will be able to take you to heaven with them. I don't want to leave my eternal life in the hands of a denomination. My denomination is reading my Bible. Because after all, a denomination is just a group telling you what you should believe based on their interpretations of the Bible. And, since we're lazy, and don't want to, or don't make the time to read the Bible and learn for ourselves, we join a denomination (not that it is bad to join one, but them being your sole bible interpreters is bad). You can certainly still go to a certain denominational church, but your view should be different, even if it is very little, from the denominational view that reared you. Why? because no denomination has it all right and I want to try to get as close to the truth as possible.