{"id":242,"date":"2009-04-08T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T01:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-10-08T20:30:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:30:54","slug":"6-reasons-i-don%e2%80%99t-believe-in-jesus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/6-reasons-i-don%e2%80%99t-believe-in-jesus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Reasons I Don\u2019t Believe In Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KingJesus\"(continued from 4\/7\/09)<\/em><\/p>\n

Reason #3:<\/strong> I don\u2019t believe in Jesus<\/strong> because I was raised in church<\/strong>.\u00a0 A lot of people have the idea if you were raised in church you automatically get the Jesus thing.\u00a0 Well, for me, church was a very difficult period in my life as a child.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t make sense.\u00a0 It was populated by people who certainly didn\u2019t look like they wanted to be there.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t taught much in Sunday School except to go on the roof of the education building and smoke cigarettes by the time I was eleven.\u00a0 Again, I\u2019m from Kentucky where smoking is indeed a spiritual gift.<\/p>\n

I sat in pews dressed in clothes that were uncomfortable <\/strong>listening to songs I didn\u2019t understand, sung by people who didn\u2019t sing like they were very joyful, and heard sermons about hell, and pride, and how I was going to have to trade one for the other.<\/p>\n

Matter of fact, my brother and I swore if we ever got out of church we\u2019d never go back.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m not a Christian because I was raised in church.\u00a0 I\u2019m a Christian in spite<\/em> of the fact I was raised in church.\u00a0 But let me say this: churches aren\u2019t perfect<\/em>.\u00a0 And you would think that an organization that collects people and allows them to be truthful about how broken and messed up they are would indeed be a messy place.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s really hypocritical to expect the church to be perfect.\u00a0 I did and I was wrong.\u00a0 I love being a part of a church.<\/strong> I\u2019ve committed myself to the advancement of the American church and will continue to do so as long as I have strength and breath.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t serve the church.\u00a0 I serve Christ and the church of people who love and serve Him and seek for Him.<\/p>\n

Reason #4:<\/strong> I don\u2019t believe in Jesus <\/strong>because my parents were Christians<\/strong>.\u00a0 To me, that\u2019s like saying if I was born in a garage, I\u2019d be a car.<\/p>\n

My parents were good people.\u00a0 My father has passed on and my mother is in her late eighties.\u00a0 But here is the truth: if my parents\u2019 faith was meaningful to them, they didn\u2019t find practical ways to translate it to me<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t see it much in how we lived our daily life: we never read the Bible, we never prayed, we didn\u2019t do those things that you would attribute to Christian parents in a Christian home.\u00a0 And so I came to believe that for us in our family the Christian faith was a cultural thing.\u00a0 It was a nominal thing, a Sunday thing, a thing to be relegated to one day a week.\u00a0 So, while my parents were good people and loving people, they didn\u2019t inspire me to be a Jesus guy.\u00a0 Maybe your parents didn\u2019t either.<\/p>\n

Again, it\u2019s one of those issues of I\u2019m a Christian in spite <\/em>of my church and my family raising.\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019ve been using your family as an excuse to hide behind, and maybe it\u2019s time to come out and consider the claims of Christ as they really are.<\/p>\n

(to be continued)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(continued from 4\/7\/09) Reason #3: I don\u2019t believe in Jesus because I was raised in church.\u00a0 A lot of people have the idea if you were raised in church you automatically get the Jesus thing.\u00a0 Well, for me, church was a very difficult period in my life as a child.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t make sense.\u00a0 It … Continue reading “6 Reasons I Don\u2019t Believe In Jesus”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}