a few thoughts on Christianity today

We like our comfortable Christianity. We want our nice little utopia. We want commitment to Christ to equal going to church twice a week and praying before meals. We want enough of Jesus to save our souls, but not enough to change our lives. We want the rewards of heaven without the sacrifices on earth. We want the easy way, but in true Christianity, THERE IS NO EASY WAY!!! Taking up our cross and DYING TO SELF is the only path! Narrow is the road! Truly the way is broad towards destruction and much of the church is on that broad path!

Much of the modern Christian church has sold out to worldliness. We want a faith that is easy, a church that matches all of our preferences and choices, a gospel that suits our lifestyles, a Bible that can be stretched to include all that we desire, and a God who revolves around us and our good fortune. 

The point of Christianity is not endless doctrinal debates about every minutia under the sun!

We have become a church of doctrinaity and churchianity, not of true Christianity! The cry is not for more rules and separation, but rather for a living breathing passionate transformative relationship with the living God! The call is not to shun the world and cloister ourselves in our refuges known as churches, but neither is it to slavishly copy the world’s culture and customs!

The world doesn't know what church is about because WE DON’T KNOW WHAT CHURCH IS ABOUT!!! We just do what we've always done because we’re comfortable with how it is! Well it’s not going to be comfortable for those in Hell! We truly have become “keepers of the aquarium” rather than “fishers of men”! We are of the world, and the only way out is a return to Christ! Not to programs or to teachings or to seminars or anything but Christ!

With Christ and his glory at the center of our focus, everything is made right. The heart of the gospel is not some moral lifestyle and dutiful church attendance! The heart of the GOSPEL is not a pious hope of eternal bliss! The heart of the GOSPEL is the restored relationship with the Almighty who made us! A radical commitment that results in the boldness to say “Hear I am, send me! Use me! Let me DIE for you and your name!” 

Lord, may I be so consumed with you that no one else can satisfy!