Unoffended & Inoffensive: Part 1

There are two misunderstandings and misrepresentations of Christians that are stereotyped in America. The first is that Christians are pushovers who are to roll over and play dead, passive, weak and irrelevant. The other stereotype is that we are militant, dominating, suppressive and threatening. Neither of these misrepresentations are sourced in the bible. The fact is that the Church of Jesus is the mightiest people on the planet. We have strength that no other people possess because it is imparted from God Himself. Yet, with that strength, we operate in love and gentleness. We are not threatening, intimidating or operating in fleshly dominance. We live as those who are to be forgiving and unoffended. We are also those who are to live in such humility and gentleness that we cause no unnecessary offense in others. Do these beatitudes describe you as you follow behind the strongest yet most humble Man who ever lived?