Seperatism.
I'm as big a fan as fellowship as the next guy, but I mean I think sometimes we Christians take it too far. I know go ahead and get ready to stone me, but I'm serious. We as Christians, for the most part, have completely secluded ourselves from the world. We have different music, different hang outs, a different culture. We have no longer taken on the job of redeeming the culture we are in, but condemning it and starting our own.
The problem with this is chances are if you are always with your Christian friends, you are never with your friends who don't know Jesus, if you even have them. That's not good. We are supposed to love and serve our neighbors so that they could come to know Him. Yet we only love and serve our own, who already know Him. Now, I'm not against fellowship at all, I just think it has been taken to such an extreme an opposing view needs to be shown. Fellowship should be a time to be encouraged and get recharged to take the gospel to those who are enslaved by sin. We are not doing that.
This hits me every time I go into the Russell House (USC's Student Union place). Walking through the cafeteria seating area its easy to know where all the Christians are. They are in the Christian Cubby. We have a place known as the Christian Cubby/Corner. If you want to see people from Young Life, FCA, CRU, Midtown, Shandon, etc. Go there and hit it up. They'll be there. We don't even eat lunch in the same area as non believers, much less with them. Come on. Be friends with some people who don't know Jesus. Show Him to them.
Get out of the bubble.
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I completely agree...
I remember after I accepted Jesus, it was as if an entire part of my social circle just disappeared. At the time I thought it was them...but I realized later that it was me. I excluded them from MY life, not the other way around.
It's so much more pleasurable to know that I can be friends with everyone and not just people who believe in the same thing that I do. I'm a better person for it. :)
That's all...just wanted to chime in!