it is really simple

Dear sisters and brothers,

So, Jesus said we should feed the hungry, clothe the naked, welcome
the stranger and visit the sick and oppressed... He said to do so for them
is to do it for Him and to refuse them is to refuse Him. (Matthew 25:31-46)

We have poor who are hungry.  We have strangers in the land who need
to know they belong.  We have sick and oppressed people who need to
know we stand with them.

Many right wing "Christians" (people who follow the Christ), actively
work to strip away any help to the poor they can, actively kick out the
strangers and dishonor them, and take away the healthcare for the sick
and create more oppressed by disenfranchising voters, for their own
gain.

They call themselves "Christians", and accuse those who would help
"the least of these" of being "socialists" and "un-Christian".

Paul, the most brilliant and eloquent expounder on the Gospels, wrote
to the Philippians that following Jesus' command to extend Agape Love
means counting the other as better than yourself and looking not only to
your own interests, but to the interests of others. (Philippians 2:1-11)

Yet, many on the "Christian right" make it about THEIR OWN interests
at the expense of others, counting others as being inferior to them and
exploiting them at will for their own gain.

And there are other teachings of Jesus ignored, not to mention the Old
Testament Prophets regarding injustice, inequities and inequalities, the
New Testament prophet, James, I John 4, etc., etc..

Who is "Christian"?  Would it not be ones who FOLLOW "The Christ" in the
way they are in the world?  Who is "un-Christian"?  Would it not be ones
who do NOT FOLLOW "The Christ" in how they live in the world?  Who is
right?  Who is wrong? Hateful, greedy, self-centered and power-hungry
are not "Christ-like" things.

What does it mean to "follow" Jesus?  What does what Jesus said, quoting
Isaiah 29:13 mean - "This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts
are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the
precepts of humans."  Mark 7:6,7
Jesus still says, "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord', and do not do what I
tell you?"  Luke 6:46

So, we worship Jesus as Savior, but ignore what the LORD taught and
exemplified in the Gospels?  Is that what a "Christian" does?

Pastor Jamie