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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4759943" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p>I had not heard of "Red-Letter Christians" before ... I gravitated towards my red-letter journey in my teens (late 60's and 70's) and in the between years by studying The Jesus Project and Funk's movement.</p><p>It appears "Red-Letter Christians" started up after Funk's death so probably very close to my beliefs.</p><p>There also was a study in the 1950's that filtered the Bible to those words most likely spoken by Jesus ... that I studied.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">"Christ is the lens through which we interpret the Word and the world." Red-Letter quote.</span></p><p>This is exactly my primary guide in my spiritual journey.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">"Red-Letter Christians" believe Christians should be paying attention to Jesus' words and example by promoting biblical values such as peace, building strong families, the elimination of poverty, and other important <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice" target="_blank">social justice</a> issues. They believe that these are the issues that Jesus spoke of directly, and therefore these issues should be social and political priorities.</span></p><p>Right up my alley!</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Other issues such as the question of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_abortion" target="_blank">abortion</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_homosexuality" target="_blank">homosexuality</a> are viewed as important but <u>over-emphasized by both</u> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Christianity" target="_blank">liberals</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right" target="_blank">conservatives</a>.</span></p><p>Each person has their own spiritual journey and questions related to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_abortion" target="_blank">abortion</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_homosexuality" target="_blank">homosexuality</a> are fuzzy areas of individual freedom and never addressed in the Red Words of the Bible. I believe Jesus was inclusive and accepted people as they were.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My hair has grown a lot during the COVID!</p><p>This is my Red-letter poise! LOL</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]326717[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4759943, member: 18222"] I had not heard of "Red-Letter Christians" before ... I gravitated towards my red-letter journey in my teens (late 60's and 70's) and in the between years by studying The Jesus Project and Funk's movement. It appears "Red-Letter Christians" started up after Funk's death so probably very close to my beliefs. There also was a study in the 1950's that filtered the Bible to those words most likely spoken by Jesus ... that I studied. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]"Christ is the lens through which we interpret the Word and the world." Red-Letter quote.[/COLOR] This is exactly my primary guide in my spiritual journey. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]"Red-Letter Christians" believe Christians should be paying attention to Jesus' words and example by promoting biblical values such as peace, building strong families, the elimination of poverty, and other important [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice']social justice[/URL] issues. They believe that these are the issues that Jesus spoke of directly, and therefore these issues should be social and political priorities.[/COLOR] Right up my alley! [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Other issues such as the question of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_abortion']abortion[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_homosexuality']homosexuality[/URL] are viewed as important but [U]over-emphasized by both[/U] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Christianity']liberals[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right']conservatives[/URL].[/COLOR] Each person has their own spiritual journey and questions related to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_abortion']abortion[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_homosexuality']homosexuality[/URL] are fuzzy areas of individual freedom and never addressed in the Red Words of the Bible. I believe Jesus was inclusive and accepted people as they were. My hair has grown a lot during the COVID! This is my Red-letter poise! LOL [ATTACH type="full" width="423px" alt="1611813887558.png"]326717[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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