Christianity can be a brand as much as it can be a faith. If you grew up Christian, you're probably already aware of the fact that there are Christian versions of just about everything from streaming services like Pure Flix to entire genres of Christian self-help books. Life coaches, radio stations, and Christian businesses. But is Christianity in the United States today really the way of Jesus?
When we read the stories of Jesus in the Bible, we see someone who exemplified a very different set of values than many might see in us today - a person filled with compassion and patience and love. People were drawn to Jesus in a way that we just don't often see people being drawn to modern Christianity. If that's the way of Jesus, why do things feel so different now? Is it possible that God can't always be found in a Christian church? Is it possible that when many Christians envision God, the Way of Jesus isn't the main thing that they think about?
But imagine a Christianity where the adherents actually lived up to that character of Jesus. How would the face of modern Christianity change if we actually took that kind of God seriously? What if Christians were the kind of people that our neighbors wanted to be around? We explore all this and more here with Pastor Andreas Beccai!
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