The Gospel

I’m watching this series called "Into the West." It’s about the settling of America and all that... about how we moved west and kicked Indians off their land. Just now, an Indian guy went back to his people and told them about God... he didn’t get all freaky about needing them to agree with certain points... he just told them about God and told them they needed to love and simple stuff like that.

Got me thinking you know--and none of this is new thought via myself or anyone else--but the truth is that our churches expect people to buy into our theology. People are almost required to agree with our doctrine in order to be "saved". Of course, I don’t think God’s into that, but lots of people seem to think that salvation is equivalent to agreeing with concepts. It’s not. Believe in God and you’ll be saved... that’s the promise scripture gives us.

Now, I think that figuring out concepts and theology is kinda fun, but we shouldn’t be forcing people to agree with concepts just so they can have an assurance of salvation!!