Being a New Christian in these Latter Days

Being Christian isn't solely about the Bible or what's true in it. It's more about learning fear, being essentially respect for the one true God, first and foremost.

Then it's about Jesus, but none of that absolutist talk about Him being the Door, and to hell with the rest of the sinners. Rather, it's about being a religious polyglot with a willingness to give Jesus new clothes to wear so that no faith shall reject Him.

Any Christian who won't do that, and pretends such a thing would water down a faith, has forgotten about the first church when Peter heard from God how to preach to the Gentiles when the Jewish fanatics oppressed them.

How else do you think Constantine the Great went over to God? It wasn't just his mother's doing like with Augustine; it was also due to his father's pagan roots which helped him see a new vision of God as the rock of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Likewise, the Christians of the new age in this post-modern world are no sinners by seeking a wider audience through the many flavors of faith before them.

For this is Maranatha for the 21st Century, and Matthew Fox speaks to all people.