{"id":140,"date":"2007-11-28T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T08:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/11\/am-i-a-christian-are-you.html"},"modified":"2007-11-28T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T08:24:21","slug":"am-i-a-christian-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/11\/am-i-a-christian-are-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Am I a Christian? Are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday is Question and Answer Day <\/strong>on the blog…a time for exploring many of the questions that people have recently asked about the nine Conversations with God <\/em>books and the New Spirituality. Here’s this week’s entry…<\/strong>
\nTopic: <\/strong>Are you a Christian?
\nQuestion asked by: <\/strong>Jacqueline
\nQuestion:<\/strong> Neale…I just saw the movie based on your book and I cried so hard for the situation you were in (making eye contact with a young boy while leaning up against a dumpster eating a sandwich).
\nI. too, was raised Roman Catholic and left the church in search of truth. I became a non-denominational christian. I still find many people do not understand the depth of my love for people, it is not from me, but from God. I started a ministy called “God’s kitchen” feeding and delivering hot meals to local shelters WITH LOVE. Not to be mistaken with a soup kitchen where many are treated like cattle. My children and I made cards for the shelter residents encouraging them to keep on going.
\nUnfortunately, our church no longer wanted “that riff-raff” to come to service on Sunday mornings, so I left the church too. Do you consider yourself a Christian? I am not sure what to make of all of this. I love your philosophy, but is it considered “Christian” or something else? It seems like I finally found one who thinks as I do and loves as deeply as I love.
\nNeale’s Response: <\/strong>My Dear Jacqueline…I would not describe myself as a Christian, at least not according to the fundamentalist Christian definition of which I am aware. I would describe myself as a Chrismuslijewdian. <\/strong>
\nI do not believe that there is only “one way to God”, and that everyone who does not take that way is going to hell. I simply do not believe that. And frankly, I don’t know many people who do. I know that they are out there, but I do not know many, personally. I think we’ve pretty much graduated from this limited idea. I think most of us pretty much understand that God welcomes all God’s children back home, and that “spiritual worthiness” is not about taking a particular path or adopting a particular belief or saying a particular prayer or doing a particular ritual or following a particular discipline. I think most of us are clear that there is more than one way up the mountain.
\nAnd so I can declare that there is enormous truth in every religion — but not the Whole Truth in any single one of them. Thus, I am also a Hindudibuddian. And a Mormonishintodian. In short, I guess I am an Everythingian.
\nThank you for your kind words. And for the way you are choosing to show up in our world. If you keep this up — sending all this love and goodness into the world — I think I could become a Jacquelinian!
\nLove….Neale.
\n(Ask Neale<\/em> may be accessed on a daily basis in the Messengers\u2019 Circle at Neale’s personal website: www.nealedonaldwalsch.com<\/a>. Each week Neale selects a question from those posted there and publishes it in this blog.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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