Comments on: “Come to Me”: God’s Invitation

By: Kevin Hash

Kevin Hash — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:33:29 +0000

Cool timing! Nice post.

This sunday I am preaching from Isaiah 55:1-9, rather than using dr. merritt’s sermon for Father’s Day. :

By: Buckley

Buckley — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:32:12 +0000

Indeed. I painted a mural of Christ giving this invitation once, at a homeless shelter. The scarred hand of Christ opened towards the sinner is the Gospel.

By: bruce

bruce — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:05:14 +0000

Hi Michael. Excellent stuff but you lost me with the line “Fair warning to those who take what flows from this relationship or follows this invitation and makes it somehow into the the invitation itself.” Forgive me. I’m a little slow on the uptake. Can you unravel this for me, please? I think I sorta, kinda get it but it seems the weight of this statement is of greater import than I can squeeze out of it, at least without your further elucidation. It seems you might be on the cusp of revealing the biggest hindrance to understanding the profound and yet simple understanding of what the gospel is, or isn’t, but I’m a Swede, so be gentle with me. Keep on going Michael. Peace to you! Bruce

By: Ruben

Ruben — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:38:47 +0000

I had to forsake theology, at least for some time, to clear my heart and my head. Sometimes it obscures the simple truths we are supposed to cherish.

By: nicholas anton

nicholas anton — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:20:31 +0000

The appeal of the Christian faith is both to the mind and the will. In the Bible we are warned against false Christs. I must therefore know the historic Jesus in order to be saved. Any Jesus will not do. Saving faith must also have definition. Not everything called faith qualifies. Jesus said, “…the devils also believe and tremble.”

By: La Nouvelle Theologie

La Nouvelle Theologie — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:48:27 +0000

Christ in His beauty draws me!…

At Internet Monk, the record of something amazing, something not due merely to theological study but to the power of God. These posts express an experience from within a Southern Baptist context and are not essentially polemical, but are truly radical …

By: Brian Pendell

Brian Pendell — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:27:41 +0000

Thank you, Michael. It’s stuff like this that keeps me coming back.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:22:23 +0000

Ruben, why forsake theology? Theology is not the problem; perhaps it was the way it was shown to you or the way your viewed it.

Michael, excellent post. I’m new to your blog and I’m loving it so far. One question: you speak a lot about God (generally) and about Jesus – how do you see the Spirit fitting into this? Thanks.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:49:15 +0000

Once again you insights hit the bullseye. I made a decision many years ago to forsake theology and arguments etc and focus on knowing Christ in my life. I used (and am still using) the simplest Bible Translation (Good News) and I read from the 4 gospels until His character was primary in my thinking. That was the only way I could be healed, I came from a fundamentalist baptist church and my image of God was so negative. I purposely put away my theology books, study bibles, etc. This was the only way I could know God as revealed in His Son.

By: Carson Weber

Carson Weber — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:41:28 +0000

Right on! Christianity is Christocentric. It's a relational embrace of love, wherein we encounter not an ideology, but a person, who changes us interiorly and conforms us to himself, who is the image of the Father. "Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction." (Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, 1)