Learning to love Jesus without checking your brain at the door. Week 6 is going to continue our discussion of being an active, critical thinker in tandem with having a deep relationship with one's faith. This week will start a little sub-series of "Being an Un-Fundamentalist Christian" with "Things Jesus Didn't Say", looking at some popular beliefs about Jesus that are not actually in the Bible. This week it's about the teaching, popular among so many "prosperity Gospel" preachers that God wants people to be rich. In fact, Jesus is so consistently critical of wealth itself, not just its use, that you have to both turn his words into pure "spiritualized metaphor" and put new ones in his mouth. How did we get from a wandering, poor, working class country boy, prophet to a tool for individual material gain?
LIvestreamed February 17, 2022 by Pastor Lars Hammar of Lord of Grace Lutheran Church in Marana, Arizona.
