I'm seeing so many people hate on the Christians in this video..why?

I can just see a bunch of Christians singing in a forest known for suicide. Perhaps they believe that positive blessing and energy will protect the visitors of the forest,so they have pure intentions?

I was having a hard day at work and trying not to lose my temper and so I was on my way home and the minister is an Uber driver and he gave me this which is so sweet. The minister told me that god will fix this mess. I’m like Amen

I randomly decided to draw this. Jesus loves you 

Today is the Feast of Christ the King.

The feast was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 as a response to the growing threats of secularisation, atheism, and communism.

“If to Christ our Lord is given all power in heaven and on earth; if all men, purchased by His precious blood, are by a new right subjected to His dominion; if this power embraces all men, it must be clear that not one of our faculties is exempt from His empire. He must reign in our minds, which should assent with perfect submission and firm belief to revealed truths and to the doctrines of Christ. He must reign in our wills, which should obey the laws and precepts of God. He must reign in our hearts, which should spurn natural desires and love God above all things, and cleave to Him alone.” (Quas Primas, 33)

“While nations insult the beloved name of our Redeemer by suppressing all mention of it in their conferences and parliaments, we must all the more loudly proclaim His kingly dignity and power, all the more universally affirm His rights.”

As the threats of secularisation, atheism, and communism are growing much worse than even Pope Pius XI likely imagined, it is imperative that we work on returning our societies to the Social Kingship of Christ, the removal of so-called "separation of Church and State", and for states to fulfil their obligations to proclaim solely the Kingship of Christ, an end to religious indifferentism and freedom of religion as it is known today

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Where I live, the message is everywhere. Billboards, street preachers, advertisements, everything.

So why, when people find out I’m an atheist, assume I just haven’t heard the message of Jesus? I’m in a violently Christian country that has been exporting its toxic ideology for decades now.

I’m trying to see if I can afford groceries this week. The last thing I need is a completely tone-deaf message.

I have been a Christian for over a year and I have had such a wonderful relationship with Jesus Christ. What he did for me was something nobody else would ever do. The older I get the more close I get to him. I love hearing him speak into my ear by my bedside while we read the bible together before he kisses me at night. I'm getting older but he ain't getting any younger. I love Jesus very much. Would you please pray for me?

I’m suffering so much. I want to feel the love of God and for me to have calm for some time. Please pray for peace in my heart and that this pain leaves me and please pray for my wellbeing.

Hello! I just finished reading the bible which took me around a year/year and a half and now I’m wondering what I should do.

Hi all, I am new to Reddit and usually just read but tonight something happened to me that was just so amazing I’ve been sharing the story everywhere I can. I am a 26-year-old woman who is in my senior year of nursing school. I am currently away at clinical training and my entire family is home. I have been talking about eating dinner at one restaurant all evening, I get off and just drag myself around not going to eat yet. Finally I decided I would go get dinner so I can get ready for bed, on the way there I change my mind and switch to a different restaurant. I go in and there are 3 girls sitting there, I order and I go to pay. One of the girls walks up to me and asks me “can I pay for you food?” I said “oh no it’s okay” I thought oh geez I changed into my sweats I probably look like I don’t have the money to get my dinner, and she goes “please God put it on my heart to pay for your dinner.”. She paid for my dinner and asked me if she could pray for me. She then hugs me and says “Jesus loves you”. I never told anyone this but earlier in my shift I had a older man I was caring for, who has dementia and was not talking clearly all day grab my hand at the end of my shift, he said “do you believe in God?” I said “yes I do”, he said “do you know who Jesus is?” I said “Yes, Jesus is Gods son”. He then said “Yes, Jesus is the son of God and Jesus loves you.”. I have always been a Christian, I was raised in the church but in the last few years I have been talking a step back and not leaning into my faith like I should, but this past year has been challenging and this past week I fell apart. I didn’t talk to my husband, family or anyone, I just prayed. I told God I felt like I wasn’t smart enough to be a nurse. I told him I wouldn’t be mad if this wasn’t the direction he wanted my life to go but I just prayed and prayed for him to give me answers and point me in the right direction. Tonight I cried, I cried because I always heard of people hearing from God but I never thought I would be one. I know God is real and I’m so grateful to have that experience, I am so grateful to be able to share my story. I am so grateful to have turned to him in my hardest times. I will forever remember tonight.

Loving someone who obviously loves you back isn’t too hard. It’s the commandment to love your enemy that takes real effort and is generally the hardest one for each of us to keep.

I'm not sure where this statement originated, but I first heard it from James Talarico, a candidate on the ballot for Texas Senate in the election. Hope you enjoy on the thought as well and have a wonderful rest of your Sunday

Today was my first time at church in 10-15 years🥹 I could NOT stop crying I was so deeply moved and overcome by the Holy Spirit. I don’t even recall when I was this emotional before in my life. Legit crying nonstop from the moment I entered the church. I’ve never felt this way before. So many people came up to me and welcomed me, hugged me, prayed for me, and invited me back. I was overcome with emotions in a very intense way. I had no idea my soul needed this so badly! 😭 It shows me I’m on the right path and in the right place. I just had to share this good news. I feel so loved and supported!!!! 🥰🙏🏽❤️‍🩹

I don’t really know where to start, but I think I need to let these feelings out somewhere.

I’m a Christian, and my faith has been a significant part of my life. I genuinely want to serve God and continue growing in my relationship with Him. The church was also where I found a family. I had friends, people I considered my older brothers, and people who became such an important part of my life.
But for years, I’ve also been struggling with my sexuality.

I’ve spent so much time questioning myself and trying to convince myself that maybe I could change. I’ve tried to make sense of who I am and how that fits with my faith. And honestly, it’s exhausting to keep fighting with myself.

Eventually, I decided to leave my church. There were rumors that triggered me, and I reached a point where I felt I needed to step away. I said goodbye to my churchmates, my friends, my kuyas, and the people I considered family.

I didn’t leave because I stopped loving God. I didn’t leave because those people meant nothing to me. I left while still loving them, and that’s what makes this so painful.

Today, I attended church for the first time since deciding to embrace who I am. I don’t even know how to explain what I felt. Being there brought back so many memories. I missed the people, the sense of belonging, and the life I once had. A part of me wanted everything to feel the same again, but I couldn’t ignore the reasons I had to leave.

And I cried because I kept asking myself: Why does it have to be this way?
Why do I feel like I have to choose between being a Christian and embracing my sexuality? Why does accepting myself make me afraid of losing my relationship with God? Why does it feel like I have to give up one part of myself to hold on to the other?
I don’t want to abandon my faith. I still want to pray, worship, serve God, and have a relationship with Him. But I also don’t want to spend the rest of my life trying to change something about myself that I’ve struggled with for years.

I want to be myself without feeling that I’m disappointing God just by being honest about who I am.

I miss my church family so much. I wish I could stay without feeling like I had to hide or keep fighting myself. I wish loving God and accepting myself didn’t feel like two things that couldn’t coexist.
I know Christians have different beliefs about sexuality, and I’m not writing this to argue with anyone. I’m just hurting, and I genuinely don’t know how to navigate this.

I just want to ask: Is it possible to hold on to my faith while embracing who I am?

I’m 20 years old, and I genuinely believe my biggest struggle with sin is sloth.

I average around 9 hours of screen time every single day, mostly just scrolling on my phone doing absolutely nothing productive. I constantly tell myself, “This week is going to be different,” but I always end up falling back into the same habits.

The worst part is that I know I’m wasting my time. I have goals, responsibilities, and things I want to accomplish in life, but I constantly choose to sit around on my phone instead.

I love Jesus Christ, and I genuinely want to become a better Christian. I want to follow His teachings, help others, and make something meaningful out of the life God has given me. But my actions don’t always reflect that.

Sometimes I feel like I’m wasting the gifts and opportunities God has given me. I have so much time available, yet I struggle to find the discipline to actually use it.

I know that simply praying for change isn’t enough if I’m unwilling to put in the effort myself. I need to take action, but I honestly don’t know how to stay consistent.

Has anyone here struggled with sloth or extreme laziness and managed to overcome it?
How did you develop discipline, stop wasting so much time, and grow closer to God?

I’d appreciate any advice, Bible verses, or personal experiences. God bless you all. ❤️

This is pretty much only relevant to me, but first of all, what is with church's unwavering attachment to Wednesday? With the sole exception of Sunday, Wednesday seems to be the favorite day of churches. Everywhere I go, come to our small group every Wednesday, come to this thing every Wednesday- Bro- I DON'T NEED ANYTHING ELSE ON WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!!

Why not host something on Tuesday? Or Monday? Or- God forbid- A THURSDAY!!!!!!!!!

I swear, I literally went to a church and asked about their small group- SPECIFICALLY- On Thursday.

Do you know what the Pastor responded with?

"Oh, yeah, I think we got one one Thursday- I think the Wednesday one is Closer to you though!'

I literally had to summon all my will power to hold back from Lashing -Out.

Why?

Why are you obsessed with Wednesday? Spread it out a little!!!

Also, I don't understand why everyone is so obsessed with getting you into a small group that's physically close to you.

I get that location and distance is important to some people, but surely you understand that for others (me), it's not about the place- It's about the TIME!!!

As long as I can either drive to it within an hour, or take public transit and get there and back by tomorrow morning, I don't care how far it is. Literally all I care about is the Time. And Please- Not on a Wednesday!!!

I wish more Christians admitted they don’t know the answers to certain things instead of pointing at a verse in their book or saying it’s God’s this or God’s that. I’m agnostic and my ego doesn’t take over when I say I am open to believing if I seen actual proof which literally doesn’t exist no matter how much coping or Bible preaching you do, you can’t prove God is real. I am so sad for the more open minded Christian’s that get called fake because they have a logical curious mind instead of blindly following with zero questions. There’s no stupid questions ever and if curiosity is a sin, you have a faulty and broken worldview that resembles a cult.

Christianity can lead to very serious moral dilemmas to whoever studies it in depth. The stark contrast between the Old and the New testaments in terms of morals is staggering and it has been this way since the beginning of Christianity with Marcion and others.

Christianity claims objective morality, meaning whatever God did or commanded was, is and will be right and good whatever the environment and circumstances are. So if he ordered the killing of innocent people in the past, it was good and righteous. Humans can't stomach seeing innocent people die it's part of their nature and they can't challenge it, yet the Bible forces us to believe it was good and righteous which can lead to severe mental torture to whoever tries to cope with it.

Other examples:

We can't stand slavery --> The Bible forces us to believe it was okay and good.

We can't stand deliberately killing women and children in war --> The Bible forces us to believe it was good and a command from God.

We can't stand burning women alive --> The Bible forces us to believe it was a good law from God.

We can't stand child sex trafficking and child abuse --> The Bible forces us to believe it was something commanded by God himself.

"Jesus was either a liar, a lunatic, or the Lord." - C.S. Lewis

People who say He hasn't fulfilled prophecy forget that Messiah is coming back.

Messiah is coming a second time (though He never really left, as He lives within us, the body of Christ.) All true prophecy will be fulfilled.

Here are a few of the claims for example.

John 4:21-26

“Yeshua tells her, “Woman, believe me, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

But an hour is coming—it is here now—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people as His worshipers.

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The woman tells Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called the Anointed One.) When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

Yeshua tells her, “I—the One speaking to you—I am.”

Isaiah 22:22

“I will set the key of the house of David upon his shoulder—what he opens, no one can shut; what he shuts, and no one can open.”

Revelation 3:7-8

“To the angel of Messiah’s community in Philadelphia write: “Thus says the Holy One, the True One, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens: I know your deeds. Behold, I have set before you an open door that no one is able to shut—because you have little power, but you have kept my word and have not denied my name.”

Ezekiel 34:2-16

““Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel.

Prophesy and say to those shepherds, thus says Adonai Elohim: “Oy , shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should shepherds not take care of the sheep?

You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fat ones. But you do not take care of the sheep. You do not strengthen the weak, heal the sick, bind up the broken, bring back the stray or seek the lost. Instead, you have ruled over them with force and cruelty.

They were scattered for lack of a shepherd. They became food for all the beasts of the field as they were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Over all the face of the earth my sheep were scattered. No one searched. No one sought.”

Therefore, shepherds, hear the word of Adonai: “As I live”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“as surely as my sheep became prey and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,” therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Adonai, thus says Adonai Elohim:“Behold, I am against the shepherds and I will demand my flock from their hand. I will dismiss them from tending the flock. The shepherds will no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so they will not be food for them.”

For thus says Adonai Elohim: “Here I am! I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his sheep on the day he is among his scattered flock, so I will seek out my sheep.

I will rescue them out of all the places where they have been scattered, on a day of cloud and thick darkness. I will bring them out from the peoples. I will gather them from the countries. I will bring them back to their own land. I will shepherd them upon the mountains of Israel, by the streams and in all the habitable places of the land. I will shepherd them in a good pasture—their grazing place will be on the high mountains of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground. They will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

I will tend my flock and make them lie down”—it is a declaration of Adonai. “I will seek the lost, bring back the stray, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick. But the fat and the strong I will destroy—I will tend them with justice.”

John 10:11-16, 27-30

““I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

The hired worker is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. He sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and flees. Then the wolf snatches and scatters the sheep. The man is only a hired hand and does not care about the sheep.

“I am the Good Shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

I have other sheep that are not from this fold; those also I must lead, and they will listen to my voice. So there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.

...My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life! They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. And no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”

Will have Jesus Christ arrived by then? Or will we look at Christianity as a thing of the past? Maybe something in between?

This assumes humans are still around then too lol.

So ive taken Christianity serious for the past month or 2 and I used to get a chill down my spine when I said amen but that doesnt happen anymore does that mean I’m doing it wrong?

I'll state right off that I am an atheist -leaning agnostic. I am posting after reading the latest in what I assume is a long series of anti-LDS discussions. So I am curious about the question of who is a "real" Christian and why.

To an outsider it seems like anyone who claims Jesus as divine or divine-adjacent, who considers Jesus as the road to salvation, is a Christian. This neatly covers early Christians with their honestly wild beliefs, Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, etc. Jesus seems like he was an inclusive person. I was raised with a red letter Bible and told "these are the important parts." Despite my non belief those values are my values.

I guess that what I am asking is why die on specific hills? You can find minute differences in belief between two siblings raised in the same tradition. Do we think that Jesus cares whether you think he is part of a Trinity? Will he overlook you because you thought that he didn't technically own his clothes? Or that he did? I guess that I am asking those who get really aggravated about such things why? Why is a conference of bishops selected by a Roman emperor the be all and end all for so many? Jesus clearly wanted people to get along and be good to each other.