Congrats to the 2013 Average Christian! He is a great actor. Pastor Coulson from Canada said the reason God raised up Hollywood is because the church is filled with actors.
Again, I am for the church. I do not hate the church. But the will of God is for us to first be saved God's way, and go to church to be fed and go out and give it to the world, preaching the gospel to every creature. The church's mindset today is typically not biblical. It is instead a permanent nursery taking care of "Baby Christians" and instead of being a light house to light the world outside it is a bug zapper trying to use the things of this world to wow and attract the lost. If they are mesmerized by the performance and personality of man, they will merely be pressured to conform to the degree of spirituality around them. They will do what is minimally required to fit in and "keep their membership" and they will not evangelize because you cannot give what you don't have. Most of the church does not have Christ, so is it any wonder that approximately 98% of Christians in America today never ever share their faith?
Think of it like this. You won't see someone who is not convinced sharing their faith. You may see them out trying to build their church or doing some sort of mission work because their religion teaches this as requirements for heaven. It is like being a telemarketer or working for Geico. You need to produce to advance, and you need to meet your quota or you will be fired. You will see those who HAVE to go out or they won't go to heaven (according to their false teachings) out on a Saturday morning and devoting their free time to this because they feel they have to. And they see that is what others do in their circles so they do this to be accepted. By others, and by God they think. That is not salvation. In the "truth" camp, the ones who at least know the Cure is Jesus, yet they often take the cure wrong (without repentance) or don't convince of the disease (which makes Jesus an experimental flu shot). And in the truth camp, people again want to be accepted, so today's modern methods are more comfortable because that is what everyone else has been doing the past 100 years and it is what the big polished preachers push, and it is what makes the lost love you instead of want to crucify you.
This is what the modern methods typically produce--- Sunday Christians who fit right in with everyone else the rest of the week. If you didn't see them at church you would never know they were Christians. It is like when you are expecting company and you throw the toys under the bed, dirt under the rug, and the laundry in the room you can shut the door in. The house looks wonderful, but how would it look with a surprise visit? The Tuesday Christian has their spiritual house ready at that moment. Most Christians fight with their wives on the way to church and smile and nod all through church.
We need to be honest with ourselves and get right with God. Is your Christianity lasting 7 days? If not why not?
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