You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.
Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.
Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?
I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.
Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.
My goal is to destroy Christianity as a world religion and be a recatalyst for the movement of Jesus Christ ... Some people are upset with me because it sounds like I'm anti-Christian. I think they might be right.
Although the gospels of the New Testament-- like those discovered at Nag Hammadi-- are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.
The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.
Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.
Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.
Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.
A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.
Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
