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\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t eat beef. It is forbidden by the ancient holy books, the Vedas. If you eat beef you will suffer eternal punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n

If my Hindu friend told me that, I would think it strange. Why? Because I\u2019m not a Hindu, and don\u2019t follow the teachings and beliefs of Hinduism. Since I am not Hindu, I do not believe that the commands of the Vedas apply to me. <\/p>\n

\"Hindu<\/p>\n

The same is true for you. If you are not Hindu, you probably sense no need or desire to follow the teachings of the Hindu Vedas, and would probably be somewhat offended if a Hindu tried to force their beliefs and practices upon you.<\/p>\n

But let’s turn this around. <\/p>\n

Why do we Christians expect non-Christians to follow the teachings of the Bible?<\/h2>\n

Why should we expect people who are not Christians to think that Christian beliefs apply to them? <\/p>\n

Why would they think that our holy book, the Bible, is anything more than a collection of ancient writings that has little or nothing to do with them? <\/p>\n

\"sandwichHopefully, you have some friends who are not Christians. If you do, most of those friends probably do not agree with all of the Christian beliefs and practices. Since they\u2019re not Christians, they don\u2019t think the teachings, beliefs, and moral values of Christianity apply to them. <\/p>\n

Of course, they probably also see that many of the people who self-identify as Christians do not act as if the teachings of Jesus or the Bible apply to Christians either. As one of our friends said, \u201cIt\u2019s something they like to spout off about. They want to tell me how to live my life, but they don\u2019t follow their own rules. They say \u2018hate the sin, love the sinner.\u2019 I get it that they\u2019re calling me a sinner. I also get it that they don\u2019t love me. The only ones they\u2019re fooling into believing that they love me is themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

A well-respected businessman in the city in which we live, upon hearing someone in a group of about a dozen people say something that indicated we are Christians, immediately blurted out \u201cYou can\u2019t be Christians. They hate us, but you love us.\u201d Everyone else in the group, including an atheist, immediately agreed.<\/p>\n

Do Christians Really Care?<\/h2>\n

I think even most people who are not Christians think that Christians do not love them or care about them. Why is that? Let\u2019s allow some of our friends to speak to that issue:<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus told them to love other people. Instead they judge other people. They think God appointed them to judge me because I don\u2019t live by their rules. Why should I? It\u2019s their rules, not mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMost church people don\u2019t want to have anything to do with us. The ones who do are doing it to make them feel good about themselves. They don\u2019t really care about us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all have an agenda. Do they think they get points with God for converting someone?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReligion is all about politics. They\u2019re pushing their political agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a weird religion. They do stuff their religion says they shouldn\u2019t do. Then they tell me not to do the same stuff because they feel guilty about what they\u2019re doing. That seems to make them feel better about what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone needs a crutch. Their religion is their crutch. Religion is not my crutch. I don\u2019t need their religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey give a few dollars to some group that claims they\u2019re fighting the evils of (fill in the blank with words like homelessness, drinking, drug addiction, prostitution, homosexuality) because they feel guilty, but they\u2019re afraid to come near us. Or they don\u2019t care enough to come near. Do you think we ever see them or their money? That money never makes it to us. Those people (the groups who receive the money) spend it on their own paychecks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My wife and I have heard every one of those sentiments and variations of them expressed dozens, sometimes hundreds, of times. Clearly, many people have a low opinion of Christians. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve read some of the other posts I\u2019ve written in the past<\/a>, you probably know that we have hundreds of homeless friends. We have hundreds of gay friends. We know hundreds of our neighbors and are friends with many of them. Which of these people have said the things above about Christians? All of them. People from every group: from the drunk lying on the sidewalk, the meth addict, and the prostitute, to the people I rarely mention, the college professor, the doctor, the attorney, the scientist and many others.<\/p>\n

Accidentally Doing What Jesus Says<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m a slow learner. I tried everything religion told me to do. I invited people to church. I headed church committees. I worked part time at a church. I witnessed. I told people what the Bible says. I cooked church dinners for thousands of people. I heard lots of whining. I heard lots of complaining. Few really cared what the Bible said. They did what they pleased, not just the \u201csinners\u201d, but also the church people. Something was missing.<\/p>\n

Almost by accident we started doing what Jesus said. Love God and neighbor. Who would have thought we should do that? Apparently no church we ever attended. It\u2019s right there in the Bible, but we never heard anyone teach it. We never heard a sermon preached about it. We rarely saw anyone doing it. We rarely heard about anyone who really did it. Well, maybe Mother Theresa, but that was like her own personal thing or something. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been living on the street for over ten years. I\u2019ve watched all the people and groups who come and go down here. They all have an agenda. Usually it\u2019s trying to get us to sign up for their religion, or they\u2019re doing their annual do-a-good-deed to make them feel better about themselves. I\u2019ve been watching the three of you for years, trying to figure out your agenda. You don\u2019t have one do you? You\u2019re the only people I\u2019ve ever seen who don\u2019t have an agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re right,\u201d I replied. \u201cWe have no agenda. We come because we love people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew it!\u201d she replied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We\u2019ve had many similar conversations. Once our friends know we care, that we love them, the relationship changes, in good ways. We talk about what is really going on in their lives and ours. We learn about each other and from each other. We\u2019re frequently asked questions about why we do what we do, and questions about God and Jesus. Many people don\u2019t care much for \u201cChristians,\u201d but are very curious about Jesus and people who act like Jesus.<\/p>\n

\"love<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a slow learner. But I have finally learned that doing what Jesus said, loving others, is the way to live my life.<\/strong> I don\u2019t need to tell people what they\u2019re doing wrong, what my religion has to say about it, or quote Bible verses to them (most of them have already heard those verses many times), try to argue theology with them, avoid them or pretend to like them. (Everyone knows it\u2019s pretending. Okay, my wife has a story about one person who fell for that. When she tells the story in any group, everyone thinks it\u2019s funny.) <\/p>\n

We love people and try to show it. If it\u2019s genuine, most people figure it out almost immediately. We try to do what Jesus said. We try to love others with the love of Jesus, which points both us and them to Jesus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The rest is up to God. Only God can convince them that if a person can love them in spite of anything and everything, then maybe God loves them too.<\/strong> Only God can help them realize \u201cGod does love me!\u201d <\/p>\n

So how then should we live? Well, it’s as Jesus said: \u201cLove God with all your being\u201d and \u201clove your neighbor as yourself.\u201d <\/p>\n

It\u2019s so simple, and yet so difficult for most of us to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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