Tuesday, July 24, 2018

BOB Good morning! This is Bob Peden of Central, a United Methodist Community here in Meridian, Mississippi. John the 3rd Chapter and 17th Verse says: “God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” Christianity has taken a strange turn. We who claim to follow Jesus wholeheartedly seem to have taken it upon ourselves to judge the world. We are quick to condemn others because they do not measure up to our standards, and I have heard Christians claim that we must not love the world. Yet, shouldn’t we who call ourselves little Christs hold the same values as he did? And if God’s son loved the world, should we not also love the world? Likewise, If the one who is truly righteous did not come to judge the world should not those of us who are righteous only because we have taken on his righteousness also not condemn the world but seek to save the world? God loves the world, the good, the bad and the ugly and so should those of us who call ourselves Christians.