Christian Humanism

Adam Ellis of the Post-Restorationist blog wrote on his blog about going to the Ukraine on a mission trip. When he returned these were his thoughts:

Upon my return to the United States, I found my self-absorbed, afterlife-centered faith to be unsustainable, and the anemic, ethereal “god” it served to be unworthy of both worship and devotion. Unfortunately, both that version of faith and that understanding of God appeared to be prevalent in the church in North America. I thus came to a fork in the road: one path led away from Christianity and church altogether, and the other was the rocky and dangerous path of an active catalyst for change. One was a path of abandonment, while the other was the path of exploration. I chose the later.

This is exactly what I have wanted to say for so long but could not ever seem to find a nice way of saying it. Thanks to Mr Ellis for this.

For my own part I have been concerned for many years now about how some folks in the church seem to believe it is all about them and not God. God works for His own glory. For God to work for the glory of mankind would be idolatry and He can’t be an idolator. As the Pastor of my church says “God is not so much concerned with our happiness as He is with His holiness.”