The true message of Jesus

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 09:42 PM CST

“Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and liberated or the broken and marginal avoid church. That can only mean one thing. If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.”

- Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God



Blogger's note:
This is so true. Very interesting. Straight dead on. Nail in the head...
I hope and pray one days churches will realise this and turn all things to point to the centre of Christianity - the Christ Himself...