Many of our current theological streams are concerned with particular moods or the many causes available to the modern individual. God, Christ, and Scripture have thus been reduced to what role they may add to the respective causes, how they make us feel, or how effective they are in providing us with our innermost desires. However, it must be asserted that any reduction of Christ to mere emotionality or to minimize Scripture to its pragmatic benefit is tantamount to idolatry and Christ-less religionism.
On the contrary to this propensity in the modern man is the real heart of Christianity: truth. We as humans seems to have a derision to discussing truth–perhaps because we spend so much of our lives dealing with falsity but calling it truth–when it is the utmost question of Christianity: is it true? This may seem like an odd thing to ask but it is our task as Christians to continually prompt the discussion back to Christ and back to the matter of truth, for this is our court.
Truth is the field that all Christianity plays in. If we remove the field yet try to continue speaking of Christ, then we are as hopeless in our venture as a stock car racer without a track. Let us then always keep our focus on the track of truth whenever we think of Christ and begin discussing Christianity. Our home field advantage is truth and we should not ever forget it!
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