Many non-believers in Christ say that Christians, especially fundamentalist joy-killers like myself, are narrow-minded, and I says this: Thank God for that. The broad-view of living that I once had nearly killed me. I am, of course, bearing joyfully in mind a few lines towards the end of the Sermon on the Mount: Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13-14).
Indeed, I sit not on the sidelines watching sin, for the Bible also says: Let not thy heart envy sinners: But be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. (Proverbs 23:17) The dissection and interpretation to that is found here. And remember, the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Roman 6:23).
I have read many of the blogs and websites of people who oppose the things of God in Christ, and I have noticed that some have an aggressive propensity to openly and licentiously flaunt their own sinfulness. These are people who decry the narrow-minded of Christ while indulging in innuendo and contumacy. (In fact, they say, to have an open mind one must be closed to such obtuse and weird beliefs such as religion, especially Christianity).
Many of the anti-faith crowd engage in cynicism and enjoy the pathos too much. They dwell on the dark side and choose their tastes very meticulously, with an eye on the political mores du jour. Hey, I used to be there. I was dying, the whole time proclaiming my desire to “live life to the fullest.” I was a liberal in the broadest sense of the world and eschewed the concept of morality primarily because I didn’t want to emulate those religious folks. But then God threw me a lifeline. People began witnessing to me, some close, some far away. Even people who didn’t ever speak to me of their faith in Christ witnessed to me, because I knew that they were Christians and that they were clean and I was dirty and I watched them and resented the heck out of them, inwardly coveting what they had. Eventually, I became a Narrow-Minded Christian and the more Narrow-Minded I became, the more joy I found along the Way, the more freedom from sin I experienced, the more of God’s love I received. Sinner, God still loves you no matter what you do. But unless our eyes are upon Him, how can we receive it? When you were a child, did you ever shrink away from a parent expressing affection toward you? It’s a similar reflex to do that spiritually with God’s love.
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