billyjames
Member
I know this forum is but a very small, small sampling of the Christian faith. However, I am pretty amazed that there is very, very little agreement on even the basic principles of the Christian belief system. It almost seems that each denomination, individual congregations, and, perhaps, even individuals within congregations have very different stances of these basic beliefs. I look at the poll about knowing for sure one is saved and see over 87% professing without a doubt. Yet, I look at a thread about "What is Saved" and can find very little certainty or agreement on exactly what being saved actually even means. (And this is in a forum where we have time to research, discuss with friends and other believers, pray about, and take time to give a reply -- What of those "real-time" encounters with the lost people of this world who ask honest and earnest questions only to get often-time trite, churchy, Christianize answers, and, if questioned further are simply blown off by some as trouble-makers...) If we are this confused within ourselves, how, then, are we ever going to actually "Make Disciples" of a lost world. Could it be that we have turned our "believing" so inward that it has little practical application in the world around us?