Cafeteria Christianity: Choosing Beliefs in Christianity

DAY 281 CHALLENGE “Why can’t I, as a Christian, simply choose the beliefs I think are right? Why should anybody else tell me what I should believe?” DEFENSE This may be an attractive proposition in our individualistic age, but it wasn’t Jesus’ view. If you’re going to be a Christian, that means listening to Jesus Christ, and he set up a Church, not a cafeteria. We aren’t allowed to pick and choose our beliefs like we pick and choose dishes in a serving line. This is evident from the way Jesus teaches. In the Sermon on the Mount, he repeatedly takes on common interpretations of Jewish...