A Dinner Party
Liberal Christians get nervous when outing themselves as Christians. They choose their words carefully, since often it occurs at a dinner party with their spiritual-but-not-religious friends.
With this crowd, the conversation can accelerate from sushi to spirituality in 5 seconds. That’s fast for a Liberal Christian. If you ask her whether she practices Buddhism or Kabbalism, you’ll catch her off-guard, and she’ll answer, “Christianity.” But then, apologetically, she’ll add, “But…I’m not one of those Christians.”
By “those Christians,” she means that she’s not about to tell you, ‘If you died tonight, and you’ve ever broken one of The Ten, you’ll go to hell for eternity, unless you say some magic words.’
In order to make the situation less awkward and the Liberal Christian feel comfortable, you should say, “Yeah, Jesus was a liberal…”
I can identify — LOL! I usually say something like “I’m a follower of Jesus of Nazareth — the REAL one.”
True story. In fact I often hesitate to tell other Christians more than non Christians. The only thing worse than an apostate is a heretic.
Love it !!!
Well done. Looking forward to the series.
And on the more conservative end of things, a friend of ours once said, “I just can’t stand those born again Christians. You aren’t one of those, are you?”
The theology student in me prompted me to answer, “Well, technically, yes, but probably not like you meant.”
Well played Chad. This is totally true.
What if we just started saying we are ‘a New Kind of Christian?’ TAKEN
this will be a cool series
Wow… This is hilarious. Very creative idea. I have been in those situations lately where I have had to justify which kind of Christian I am and am not. I am finding that it amazes people to find out that I share their same views of politics and yet I am a pastor! What a world to do ministry in…