Is Your Faith Healthy? It's Important That You Know!

I am appalled by what is often presented as the way to have a meaningful (healthy) Christian faith. I'm appalled even more that there are so many among us who hold to a unhealthy understanding of the faith they claim to be superior to all others. Even sadder and more to be rejected is the fact too many people of other religions (even non-religion) believe those false interpretations to be accurate interpretations of a faith centered in Jesus the Christ. .

Are you among those who hold such a faith? Who hold to a totally false view of what your faith is, yet you still believe you are in the right regarding?

Indeed, it all is appalling. One thing is obvious in the New Testament. Jesus of Nazareth did not believe that his teachings were meant to cause friction and misunderstanding. Quite the contrary, the Christ presented in the New Testament is a loving person whose chief aim was to bring people together, to live in "perfect harmony" if you will.

So, let me ask, dear reader (or listener), is your faith healthy? More specifically, can it pass a threefold test:

In the first instance, do you genuinely acknowledge the decency of people who are very unlike you, of a different color or social status, and who may even speak a different language?

Secondly, do you actively seek to share your faith in a way that brings greater unity and understanding among all people; and

Lastly, do you believe that people of other faiths can be "saved"? that is, that they too may enter the Kingdom of Heaven, possibly without ever having been introduced to Jesus of Nazareth?

If you cannot answer these questions with flying colors, the chances are great\ that you have a very unhealthy understanding of Christianity/

Get help. Or, as Saint Augustine once said (one of my favorite quotes}, "Love God then do as you please!"