This is a quote that I have come back to often over the last few years... for some reason I can't get it out of my head. What do you think? Do you agree?
"The greatest difference between present-day Christianity, and that of which we read in these letters (of the New Testament), is that to us it is primarily a performance; to them it was real experience. We are apt to reduce the Christian religion to a code or, at best, a rule of heart and life. Perhaps if we believed what they believed, we could achieve what they achieved."
- J.B. Phillips
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Thanks for posting Leanne! Good question...
I think it has to do more with different experiences than different beliefs. We can believe the same thing, but due to different cultures, and times, and countries, etc, we just don't have the same experiences, or persecutions and hardships, so perhaps even our faith is not as strong... but would it be if we were in those situations? I think so... how else could a person survive?
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