Jesus or the Pharisees? Patrick Darnell began his speech by hitting the audience with this quote by Gandhi: “I like Jesus, but sometimes I do not like his followers because they can be so much unlike Him.” At TedX Augusta, Darnell presented the idea that Christians have moved far beyond their original purpose. Christ set aside a perfect path for His followers to walk down, but we stray from the path. Worldliness all around can poison the mind if we let it enter our thoughts. The church is meant to be followers modeling Christ; the reputation it has now gained is more like the Pharisees. Before Jesus left the earth, He gave His disciples a last few words of encouragement: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witness in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (NIV, Acts 1:8). Jesus told them that He was sending the Holy Spirit to guide them. Throughout the New Testament, Christ was constantly …show more content…
“One: church is not an institution but a movement” (Darnel). He means that church is not a building and how it looks, but church is the people and how they act like Christ. We have to stop worrying about how we look to the world and start only caring about how we look to the Lord. The building means nothing compared to the ministry we could thrive in doing, if we refocused ourselves back to the Bible. “Two: we need foundation in relationships” (Darnel). Even Christ had a relationship foundation close to Him in his group of disciples. They were the people that He did life with and the ones He confided in with the words of God. We can not get stronger with our Christianity unless we have fellowship. People wake up, go to church, listen to the message, and then leave. That becomes the only contact we have with fellow believers. How do we expect to grow stronger in Christ if we are unable to practice one of his most important