Andy Anderson on the "Overcomers"

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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

... there was a man who said he also had been resuscitated, and that he had died for about 30 seconds. I already knew from prior discussions that he was a Buddhist.

So I asked what his experience was. He said he also saw Jesus. That really confused me, so I asked if you saw Jesus why are you a Buddhist? He said that for a few weeks he tried going to Christian churches but didn't understand what they were talking about so he returned to being a Buddhist.

I think that story is hilarious. I mean, I have to laugh so that I don't cry. My feeling for quite some time has been that the only thing stopping the Good News is our interpretation of it.

By this I don't argue for some universalist, watered-down version, but rather that the power, the simplicity, the purity and the visceral impact of the Spirit of the Man Jesus has been largely lost. We believers get a brief glimpse, then we typically spend the rest of our time in either empty ritual or empty doctrine. And the curious and open person visits our ekklesia and says, like your Buddhist, "I don't know what they are talking about".