We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

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Christianity is a religion that revolves around the idea of self-sacrifice and loving our neighbor, but people are trying to make Christianity about themselves instead. If we want to show our love for God, we should not take his teachings and try to make them about us. Rather, we should seek to love others as well as God loves us. We should think about what Jesus would do if he came back to us in our time and how he would interpret these self-centered ideas.

Christians today have a tendency of thinking that Christ wouldn’t care what we did with his teachings. That’s why the central message of Christianity is being neglected by so many people today.

Source: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From The American Dream

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