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What it means to me?

I watched Alistair Begg's talk, Is the Exclusivity of Christ Unjust?  from the 2010 Ligonier conference last night.  It's a very timely question because we live in an age of pluralism.  Christianity is considered offensive because we believe it is the only way , not one of many ways to God.  The accusation of being "unloving" is thrown in our faces, because we'd be loving if we accepted every person's right to find their own way to God.  Also in this equally therapeutic age, the cardinal sin is making someone feel bad about themselves.  But how much have we been infected by this mistaken idea of tolerance and feelings trumping truth? Here is a very interesting quote from Pastor Begg's talk: [P]eople are not encouraged to seek out objective truth but to settle for subjective feelings. So to ask what a text means is passe. The real question is “What does it means to me?” Some of you are surprised by this statement because that it is where your home ...