Following Paul

Good Christians prefer Paul.

I recall friends voicing their opinion that, although Christianity is centered around the person Jesus, his life and his teachings, it was actually Paul who founded Christianity as we know it. And you know... I don't think they're so far off the mark.

The Christianity we have today, especially the North American flavour, is only a couple hundred or so years young and in that short time has largely fallen out of step with the Way of Jesus, opting for instead an amplified version of Paul's various teachings to the fledgling followers of the Way in the first century.

I don't think that his intention when he wrote letters to these early disciples from his prison cell was that they should dissect and analyze each phrase systemically to plum the depths for nuanced meaning. I'm pretty sure he longed for their hearts to catch what he was saying and run with it.

Anyway... I don't have an issue with Paul so much as with what we've done collectively with his letters to the early churches; and how somehow we're now deceived into being hearers and not doers.

And... I can't keep my eyes open.
Other upcoming thoughts: "What's up with heaven?", and "Pray this way to get saved."