When Gandhi almost became a Christian.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John 13:35

 I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

- Mohandas Gandhi

I just finished watching the movie "Gandhi 1982, Ben Kingsley looked so much like Gandhi, many natives thought him to be Gandhi's ghost and 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral sequence. About 200,000 were volunteers and 94,560 were paid a small fee (under contract). The sequence was filmed on 31st Jan 1981, the 33rd anniversary of Gandhi's funeral. 11 crews shot over 20,000 feet of film, which was pared down to 125 seconds in the final release. 

Anyway, I was touched and was moved by Gandhi's story of  radical love and peace  when he said, "Nonviolence is the law of our species."  But what wasn't shown was when he went to a Christian church but was rejected by the "Christians" and this where I want to explore the question, What is true Christianity in connection to Gandhi and future Gandhi's we would meet in the future?

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Ghandi replied, “I’d like to attend worship here.”

The church elder snarled at him, “There’s no room for kaffirs in this church. Get out of here or I’ll have my assistants throw you down the steps.”

From that moment, Ghandi said, he decided to adopt what good he found in Christianity, but would never again consider becoming a Christian if it meant being part of the church.

How we treat those others tells people MORE about what we believe, and what following Jesus means to us, than all the fine sermons we deliver.

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Mohandas Gandhi adored Jesus' teachings on love and peace and He embodied that, but what Im pointing out is how we "christians" become very vindictive and judging when we should use love and peace in making Jesus and not our religions famous.

Christ attracted the sinners and the sinners are attracted to Christ, Jesus restored the relationship of man to the Father through intimate love and relationship with the sinner. The sinners, like me, Jayjay Lizarondo, was able to understand though not entirely comprehend, in obedience of faith through grace, the love of God. 
Unfortunately, Gandhi was looking for answers and his rejection of Christianity grew out of an incident that happened when he was a young man practising law in South Africa. He had become attracted to the Christian faith, had studied the Bible and the teachings of Jesus, and was seriously exploring becoming a Christian. But the so called "Christians" rejected him because his skin's color was brown. Oh wow. What a scary thought.

Am not into judging a race, ones religion, denomination and or preferences of whatever, but radical grace means Lord if they don't believe, help me to just love and pray for them, maybe, who knows! I would rather just pray for God's spirit to touch their hearts and still love those that are in the dark instead of judging or reviling or damning them. I pray to God I do not judge so I may not be judged but to exemplify and emanate Christlikeness in love, through love, by love. Peace. :-)