my reflections
started this Lord's day morning
reading a tweet from
James Comey,
the ex/fired FBI
director
talking about the
need for truth.
this took me on to 3
questions
A Question asked
A Question answered
A Question not asked
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first and relating
in a way to Mr Comey's tweet.
A Question
asked
What is Truth ?
The question asked
In John 18:38 KJV “Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? “
there is no recorded
answer, we do not know if it was a throw away remark, or a serious
question, but we have no recorded answer. Such an important question
and no answer. Is it that there is no answer? or are there too many
possibilities to make answering a minefield through which it is
perilous to traverse?
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A Question
answered
what
shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Prior to my falling down my sister’s stairs in 2012
[that effectively ended my 4th career as a lorry driver]
I had made it a point of asking those who I found
to be “in your face christian” the above question
and giving them a multiple choice possibility answers
of about 30 or so that I asked, including a preacher with a
megaphone in Chester city centre, only 1 got it right.
The 99% of in your face christian’s asked were of the opinion
the answer was to come to Calvary, accept Jesus as personal
saviour and be born again.
But that was not Jesus’s answer to the question.
I suspect not too many in you’r face christian’s like Jesus’s
answer.
Same question is asked of Jesus in Matthew Mark and Luke :
here is Luke (synopsis) :- Luke 18:18-22 KJV
Obey
the commandments , Do
not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false
witness, Honour thy father and thy mother, sell
all that thou has and give to the poor, take up thy cross and follow
Jesus.
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A
Question not asked
Are
we doing it right? - that is my question
and
asked because no one dared ask a very very important question.
Did
I say very very important.
Are
we doing it right? How do we know this
(the
way we gather – fellowship – worship )
is
what Jesus ,God, had in mind.
The
very first time [as we know it] in the history
of
mankind that anyone used this New Word
C
H U R C H was in Matthew 16:18 KJV
“thou
art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;
and
the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Yet
no-one then, at that moment,
or
at any time from then until Jesus Ascended into Heaven
was
HE ever asked – for the record,
so
that we may know whet HE meant;-
Rabbi
“what is a church”
could
it be we are not doing it, being a church as Christ intended?
Who
knows!!
oh
please don’t be suggesting that the answer lies in the teachings of
the sinful Paul, who is as qualified as you and I to make
assumptions,
Neither
he nor
us hearing Christ speak in the 1st
place.
So
these are my thoughts this Lord’s day Morning – shared – for
what they are worth to the reader
