“I am thankful to be a Christian because“

Group Writing Project

by Hopeful Spirit

Announcing the first-ever group writing project sponsored by On the Horizon, The Next Step, and Proverbs 31 Woman Wanna Be:

“I am thankful to be a Christian because . . . “

Write a post with that title and submit it no later than Tuesday, November 20, 2007, at midnight (Pacific time) by clicking here.

All entries will be collected and the link to each published at On the Horizon, The Next Step, and Proverbs 31 Woman Wanna Be on Wednesday, November 21, 2007, just in time for Thanksgiving.

One post per blog, please, but you may submit a post that you write specifically for this group project or one that you have previously published on your site. There is no minimum or maximum number of words required and, in fact, you may feel free to submit a post containing a video presentation, artwork, or other media so long as it is consistent with the theme, i.e., conveys to the reader the basis and rationale for your belief that Jesus Christ is the One true son of God and died for your sins in order that you might have eternal life. This project is open to members of any and all or no specific church or denomination. (No vulgarity, profanity or hate speech, please. The owners of the individual host sites will have discretion and the final authority regarding the appropriateness of posts to which they will link from their blogs.)

Questions? Concerns? Drop an e-mail to admin at hopefulspirit dot com!

Tami, Shalene, and I look forward to reading your wonderful thoughts about being thankful!

November 16, 2007 Update: If you have submitted a post, we apologize but must ask you to resubmit via email to hopefulspirit at comcast dot net. It appears that there is a problem with the submission form and notifications are not being received. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

“I am thankful to be a Christian because . . . “

...Because I can draw distinctions between religions and the gospel that Jesus preached. John 7:24 making right judgments about Jesus plus nothing ; Galation 1:6-9
Faith in Jesus Christ and nothing else. No law of man or rule of condemnation.

I am so thankful for a relationship that is a friendship with God. I am so very thankful to be free from the Law and have become a law unto myself through the will (God placed within me) to do what is right from within me. Freedom. Psalm 91 tells me that because "I have placed my love on Him that this is my destiny..." I have lived this for 26+ years now with a covering that has guarded me from the most fierce storms any human can encounter. My gratitude extends to the woman who years ago left an open Bible on my teller desk. The other woman who saw me the day I was selling all my belongings to go live on the street and die. It was she who opened a Bible after she fed my starving body.
It was in the spin the whirlwind of a battle over my soul that God won! Yet I know that even in my childhood He would one day set me free to live on this plane of existence. That there was more than existence but life awaiting me.
Witnessing lives dropping at my side year after year in my recovery years, it was his love reciprocal that sustained me.
Being a Christian is become a title shamed by those who live under Jesus Plus...you name it...
More wounding more rejections more condemnations and more souls left to not want to cast their love for him out of mis information grieve my heart.
The term "Christian" has been defamed defaced and a ridicule among the nations.

Jesus plus nothing. Choosing to believe that he was and is and will return to be... A hope and a love that draws the hearts to choose to pursue HIM. The soul that longs for and desired , sets their love upon him... It is they who the love of God is drawn into intimacy with. Not those who simply relate to a set of laws,rules and expectation.
Being a Christian is about loving Him, intimately relating to Him. To all of his examples and all of His ways and compassions. Being in covenant with Him and this is Love to Love Him, I can't help but love all of you.

It is Jesus plus nothing only but to love one another as he has loved us. I am thankful that it is so simply as to melt away into one simple yet profoundly disciplined act of loving my brother/sister as he has loved me. Keeping myself unstained Jesus plus nothing pulls our hearts into everything he longs for us to be.
By Donetta