The Christian Utopia
I’m wondering what I would look like if I were to become the ultimate Christian. Better yet, what do you think I look like when I become the ultimate Christian?
Do I pray all the time?
Do I immerse myself in the Bible and study, study, study?
Do I serve and love and give like Mother Theresa?
Does fasting become a part of my routine schedule?
Is my attendance at every church service, Bible study, and prayer meeting required?
I’ve just been thinking about this lately and wanted to know what you thought. Is there an end goal? Is Jesus that end goal? Is it possible to translate all of the things He did into our culture today? For years we’ve split into denominations and factions because we can’t agree on this answer, while Jesus prayed that we may be brought to unity for the worlds sake. So please share…
What does your Christian utopia look like?
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I’ve never been good a trying to fit into the super christian mold. The most difficult, painful job i ever had was working at a christian bookstore..simply because alot of it felt really fake, and there was almost no real connection with people, at least not on a level that felt natural to me, but there was a whole lot of talking about the right music, right bible…For me i love to fellowship and be with people- relate in a real way….
When the word “utopia” was coined, there was a sense implied by the construction and orgin of the words that made it up that implied it was both ideal and impossible at the same time.
I believe that there will be a utopia, but not in this life. I think that this utopia requires people who are ready to be perfect citizens, and I don’t think we will be made perfect citizens in this life. Seriously? If they let anyone I’ve ever met into heaven, we would just ruin it.
I think we’re being prepared for it in this life. I think we’ll be (in some limited sense) perfected as we enter the next.
There is cleary a good and a bad, a right and a wrong, and we can be good or bad people… But a utopia?
We may as well try to explain omniscience, omnipotence, all the rest. Our puny little brains just aren’t ready to get very close to them.