Q&A Corner
In the Q&A Corner we explore your questions about Christian belief and living.
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This is a well phrased question! It demonstrates how hard it can be to put God into words. The Bible often uses family relationship language to explain who God is: the Father is God, Jesus (the Son) is God (the family language holds so far!) and the Holy Spirit is God (confusing right?).
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Let me introduce you to the family. On your left is the dad - he likes 80's rock and motorbikes. Next up the mum, who likes soap operas and Italian food. Little sister likes playing with friends on her trampoline, while big brother likes warhammer and playing his music loud. This winds granny up as she prefers quietness, and only listens to classical music. Then, there is Grandad who is happy as long as he's allowed to watch football anytime it's on.
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According to a theory circulating on the internet, Chuck Norris created God. Somehow, we just don't think that the undefeated Karate world champion and movie legend has this kind of power. The most common answer people respond with nowadays is that humankind created the idea of God to explain the world around them. However, the Bible tells a different story, not of man creating God in this way, but of a God who reveals his existence to humanity time and time again in order to radically impact our lives.
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As Christians we find Jesus compelling. His life, death and resurrection convince us he was God in the flesh and that we want to follow him and his way of living at all costs. Through following Jesus, we have come into a relationship with a God who, like Jesus did, we can call our ‘Father in heaven.' In Father God's presence it is like we have come home and we get to experience his love and his healing activity in our lives.
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If you are human then you worship something. You buy someone a present for someone it's because you think they're worth it. You devote your time to playing sport or you spend money on buying CDs or magazines because you think they're important. That's kind of what worship is - it's saying that someone or something is valuable, that they are important enough for you to do something about it. It's not usually a forced act for we are happy to say: "that's brilliant," "that's my favourite," even "I love you!"
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Christians coined the term trinity as they sought to explain their experiences of God (and this very question) to others. This word trinity seeks to explain how God has revealed himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The experiences of the early Christians of the resurrected Jesus led them to believe Jesus was God in the flesh and they began to worship him as divine. These same people then experienced the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost (Acts 1). They realised that the transformational work and empowerment they felt by the Holy Spirit was God's active presence living and working inside of them.
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The friends we choose to hang out with will influence the way we think, what we believe and how we act. We think influence is a better word to use in this context because everyone sins and Christians are not superior to others.
Now, some people will influence us positively while others will influence us negatively. What we think you are asking in your question is how you can avoid being influenced negatively by a certain group at school. Here are a few of our thoughts…
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This is a question I've asked myself a lot. I don't know where you might be coming from in asking it but I've found myself questioning whether Jesus could love someone like me. What is there about me that would make him want to love me?
Saying that ‘Jesus loves everybody' sounds a bit corny. Even singing ‘Jesus loves me this I know; for the Bible tells me so', doesn't give a very specific answer!
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When I was at school, there was a boy in my class who was particularly gifted at creative reasoning, especially when it came to reasons his homework was not in. One excuse that stands out was for a history assignment.
"You see, the thing is Miss, I've been listening to you in class for the last few weeks, and I've come to the conclusion that you actually know a LOT about the Second World War - much more than I do. I've not done my essay because I've realised, there is nothing I could tell you that you don't already know."
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John Lennon wrote a famous song called "Imagine" that talks about a world without religion making a world where everyone is at peace.* Let us imagine for a minute that there was no such thing as "religions". What if there weren't any boxes to put yourself in - so no-one could say "I'm a Christian", or "I'm a Buddhist" or "I'm a Muslim".