"Make up your mind...I'll make up mine"
It struck me the other day that I would much rather listen to a bunch of people who don't follow Jesus swear and be with them while they got drunk than a bunch of people that said they were followers of Jesus. This is one thing that sometimes drives me nuts and you can throw me in this category to - the hypocritical category.
The thing about the "I don't follow Jesus crowd" is that they aren't pretending to be someone they aren't. They have just chosen to live their lives for themselves and this is who they are. In the "Jesus follower crowd", we've got a bunch of people that say they are something but aren't what they say they are. These are the people that go out, get smashed at a party and wake up beside someone they've never met before. Then they roll out of bed and cruise into church thinking they've just pulled the biggest con ever. This bugs me.
I say if you are gonna be something, be it. Save yourself the time. Save the rest of the world the headache of putting up with the charade.
Maybe this is what Jesus was thinking when he was hanging out with the sinners, prostitutes and tax collectors...at least they were real. The Pharisees were a big group of fakes trying to make up for the day the school bully called them fat in the playground. I bet Jesus liked hanging out with the sinners because he knew what he was gonna get...a big massive pile of...yep...you guessed it...sin. But with the religious people it was always a gamble...are they gonna be on or off today? Are they gonna be personality #1 or personality #10?
So I've decided that it's way easier to hang out with a bunch of guys that don't claim to be anything but living for themselves...at least I know what to expect.
The thing about the "I don't follow Jesus crowd" is that they aren't pretending to be someone they aren't. They have just chosen to live their lives for themselves and this is who they are. In the "Jesus follower crowd", we've got a bunch of people that say they are something but aren't what they say they are. These are the people that go out, get smashed at a party and wake up beside someone they've never met before. Then they roll out of bed and cruise into church thinking they've just pulled the biggest con ever. This bugs me.
I say if you are gonna be something, be it. Save yourself the time. Save the rest of the world the headache of putting up with the charade.
Maybe this is what Jesus was thinking when he was hanging out with the sinners, prostitutes and tax collectors...at least they were real. The Pharisees were a big group of fakes trying to make up for the day the school bully called them fat in the playground. I bet Jesus liked hanging out with the sinners because he knew what he was gonna get...a big massive pile of...yep...you guessed it...sin. But with the religious people it was always a gamble...are they gonna be on or off today? Are they gonna be personality #1 or personality #10?
So I've decided that it's way easier to hang out with a bunch of guys that don't claim to be anything but living for themselves...at least I know what to expect.
sadymany young or immature Christians are lazy. they don't know wht they believe and are too busy still playing both sides of the fence. they flirt with the world. one has to question if they really understood their original commitment or as to the cost of following Jesus. are they interested enough to read the Word to let the Holy Spirit guide them into holy living? or is the church too spiritually emasculated to really speak out against it. sure there are Christians who sin like the devil during the week and then try to be holy actors on sunday. its been around forever. maybe they never read in Acts about Annanias and Saphira. maybe they never realized to whom they made a commitment too is a holy righteous GOd. nobody sat them down to tell them the commitment involved or the daily sacrifice. maybe they were fed a week kneed gospel with no accountability because it wasn't politically correct or not good marketing.
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