If you’ve been following this series of posts, you’re already familiar with the scene. Early in the twentieth century, western Christian worker E. Stanley Jones developed a friendship with India’s Mahatma Gandhi. On one occasion, Jones took the opportunity to ask Gandhi’s advice as to how Christians could make a more favorable impact upon the [...]
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A Conversation with Gandhi – Part IV
Posted in christlikeness, discipleship, showing love to the world, tagged grace, love your enemies on August 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A Conversation with Gandhi – Part III
Posted in christlikeness, discipleship, showing love to the world, tagged christlikeness, discipleship, Jesus, love your enemies, loving sinners on August 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In the two previous posts (here and here) we’ve observed Mahatma Gandhi conversing with one of his contemporaries, E. Stanley Jones, a western Christian worker in India. Jones asked Gandhi how Christians might make their faith more appealing to the Indian people. Gandhi replied with four separate recommendations. As I’ve already shared, it is my [...]
Be the Change
Posted in showing love to the world, tagged Christian activism, Jesus, love your enemies on July 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Regardless of age, weight, color, gender, nationality, political, sexual or religious orientation, the one thing that it seems that most people can agree upon is the fact that our world is in a mess. Maybe it’s always been like this. Maybe what makes it so hard to take these days is the connectedness which ties [...]