Francis Arihilam
In an exclusive interview Oprah Winfrey asked Hillsong New York Pastor Carl Lentz directly “Do you have to be a Christian to believe in God?”
He said, “No” firmly.
“Our thing is to point people to say, ‘Hey, if you allow God, if you will bow your knee and admit your need of God,’ and if you do that, and you say, ‘Lord … there’s a moment where my repentance matters, and it’s right now, and I’m handing over the keys,’ if you do that, God can drive this better than you can. … In that moment, there’s a rescue, a salvation, that you can’t counterfeit any other way.”
When Lentz says “no” to not being a Christian to have a relationship with God, he’s not talking about heaven and hell and salvation. Rather, the pastor is discussing how God intervenes in daily lives to express His love to people who don’t yet know Him.
“I believe that when Jesus said that ‘I am the way, the truth and the life’—the way I read that, Jesus said that He is the road marker, He is the map,” – Carl Lentz
I believe God loves people, what do you believe, do you agree ?
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