Don Johnson

I believe a person can be a believer and also be a Roman Catholic, an Eastern Orthodox, a Evangelical, or a Messianic Jew; yet these groups believe some very different things and even they are not monolithic on some things. There is a tendency to claim a “my way or the highway” method of interpretation, would it not just be simpler if everyone agreed with me?

I believe this temptation should be resisted.

Another point is that Jesus was CONSISTENTLY making people uncomfortable in some way by breaking their paradigms. If I am not changed by attending a church and studying the Bible, what is the point? Do I really think I know it all from the get go? The life of a believer is to be characterized by repentance, as one learns of one’s hidden sins.