If you have grown up in the Christian life, you may not realize it, but many of us have grown up with a cute little Christian life. We listen to our Christian music and wear our Christian T-Shirt while driving in our car with our Christian bumper stickers. Pretty cute huh? "Not really" says the world. What is Christian about that. The world needs and wants to interact with real people. People who cuss and cut. People who struggle with their marriages and their money. In our "cute" little lives it can come across like we are perfect inside and out. The world see's us as phonies. So what do we do?
Try this: Be real. Get help where you need it, because even though you may be seen as perfect, you know that you are far from it and have so many areas where you need to be fixed. Interact with people. Get out of you comfort zone and go talk to people who may not look, smell, dress or act like you.
Notice Jesus. He was anything but a cute little Christian. He was a man, a radical, associated with sinners, prostitutes and scum of His day. And what do we do? We go to church.... are you kidding?? Seek Jesus, not tradition and change Christian. If you are not a Chritsian, I would like to appoligize for my life and the lives of many Christians or "Christians". I hope I would change and start to be more real and honest with God, myself and you.
4 comments:
People need Christians to cuss? Followed your idea up to that point and then you lost me...
Thanks for the challenge. Its true, people are tired of Christians who distance themselves with a false sense of perfection. Church people can appear sterile until you dig deeper and find out the real issues. Church Christians are "taught" to hide reality so as to maintain our image. Real people with real problems and real Solutions in Christ are what people need to see. Healed wounded helping the wounded.
Thanks for your thoughts Jane. Great insight.
Anonymous, the idea is not that we need Christians to cuss, but to stop acting as if we are perfect and don't cuss or sin or....
Excellent post, Justin. It's been a while since I saw you.Take care & God bless.
-Cynthia Coleman
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