We are drawn to the sweet baby Jesus lying in the manger and find it easy to get excited about Him. We hear a lot about the smiling Savior Who longs to give us a good life. We put the two together and we come up with something easy and comfortable: a smiling gentle Savior Who lives to please us. Marry this watered down and weakened view of Christ with a dose of modern thought and you have our churches: fun, safe places to go that don’t demand too much of us. They are Christian belief systems which are different enough from the world to make us marginally better morally (but even that is changing) but not different enough to make us stand out or cause us to be embarrassed (after all, we are sure that Jesus wants us to be happy more than anything).
We have forgotten or willingly ignored that the reason Jesus came to earth was to justify us before God by the satisfaction of His holy wrath through the shedding of His blood on the cross with the result being that His people would turn away from sin and be holy.
We have forgotten or willingly ignored that the reason Jesus came to earth was to justify us before God by the satisfaction of His holy wrath through the shedding of His blood on the cross with the result being that His people would turn away from sin and be holy.
