The Christian Blog-sphere Challenge

I am going to try to keep this post up for a little while before I do another post. Wish me luck on that as I tend to post about three times a day.

I Peter 3:8-9
"Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing."

I never post something here unless God has shown me some truth in it. And tonight he showed me some truth.

We were like little islands that came together to create the blog-sphere. We all have different convictions and God has revealed different Truths to each of us. We are here to share those and hopefully help expand the church's vision of God.

But in this blog-sphere, we also have non-Christians watching how we are behaving. They are using our posts to form opinions on Him whom we represent. So be careful.

I have a challenge! Keep away from opening up cans of worms on purpose that would cause division in the body of Christ. I believe that like Paul, we should teach Christ and Christ crucified. I think that is our standard and that is what we, as Christians, should focus on. Let's put down the torches and pitchforks and show the world a unified love in Christ alone. We are people and we will have different opinions on music, dress, personalities, Bible translations, preferences on pastors, etc. But if someone is promoting Christ, let's leave them alone. I have seen so many blogs where people try to stir up dissention by coming down on other Christians. The second part of this challenge is to refrain from joining the fray when something pushes your buttons. Return insult and evil with blessing! Spread the word of the challenge.

Let them know we are Christians by our love.