A Listening Heart

It is popular, of course, to strike out at secular humanism and atheistic communism. Among other things, these “isms” reflect the heresy of rejecting Christ. But it is less popular, it seems to strike out at the greatest heresy of all — the heresy of remaking Christ into someone He never was, is not now, and never will be. To say that we are Christians and then try to pretend that Christ is not the eternal healer and reconciler is a contradiction. To say that we are Christians and then try to pretend that Christ is not the eternal dispenser of a “cup of water” to the thirsty, is a contradiction. To say that we are Christians and then try to pretend that Christ is not totally sensitive to the strengths and weaknesses and needs of all, is a contradiction.

“We have the mind of Christ”…we “are of the Body of Christ and individually members of it,” the Apostle Paul wrote. “Put on then,”…