6.18-Should we as followers of Jesus be friendly with the world?
6.18- I was warned as a youngster to be careful about being too "worldly". Then I came to realize that Jesus spent time, quite a bit of time with the known sinners in His town. I read more and came to know that He came to save all us sinners. Jesus is the chief forgiver. Jesus Christ came into the world to save people from the effects of their sins and failures. The guilt. The shame. The ball and chain of shame. To do that He left heaven and came to earth and hung out with sinners. He did not yoke up with the Pharisee hypocrites. He did not align with those who lived low moral lives. In fact He called them to leave their way of sinful, destructive living. Yoking two oxen together means that they must move in the same direction. Jesus and His followers are moving toward the light. They are focused on serving God, not money. They have this direction. The thing with...