What Would Jesus Really Do? (WWJRD)

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As I was surfing through the channels last week looking for something on television that was not a rerun or totally tacky, I ran across a discussion of why America was not mentioned in Bible prophesy. Since that has been a topic that we have brushed upon here at Wonder Springs in the past, and we were getting well up on the channel surfing dial, I decided to give it a listen, after all, it was Christmas!

The man leading the discussion was a somewhat well known Christian television minister and the man with all the information, I did not know, but anyway I decided to stick around and see what would develop.

What I remember was that there were four reasons given for why the United States was not to be found in the Bible’s end of this age prophesy, one of those was the coming Rapture, the other three I can’t remember, but for only a $50 gift to the ministry I could get the DVD. What wasn’t on the list however was anything to do with the outworking of real natural law especially as it relates to individual diversity, responsibility and natural energetics.

I watched most of the first episode, but I have to admit it was getting late, and I did doze off for a couple of brief lapses. At the beginning of the second, I made the determination to pay more attention. However I again awoke at the close of the episode and decided that I might as well just go to bed. Look at it this way, even though the world is rapidly going to hell, it really isn’t that exciting watching two aging men sitting across from one another discussing a topic they believed in, but at the same time really had little to say for at least four hours.

What really is more interesting is reading the biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. That is also not something you can’t put down and must read until the end, it is after all almost six hundred pages. Furthermore the contrast between Bonhoeffer’s life and the television episodes could not be more striking, even though I would believe that the two Christian leaders would not totally agree with my comparison.

That difference I would summarize is that my sleepy television hosts were discussing concepts of the American evangelical Christian religion, Bonhoeffer’s life thus far has been one more about wonder and the workings of Christianity at its very core, and how the church just doesn’t seem to get, or be interested in, the essence of the Christian gospel.
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