Tuesday, April 19, 2011

30 reasons people don’t believe what you say about Christ

I woke up this morning at 3:00 and couldn’t go back to sleep. I was really grieving the state of the Church in America. This is some of what came into my head.

30 reasons people don’t believe what you say about Christ


1. You pick and choose what you want to believe from the Bible. Oh, and surprise the portions you don’t believe just happen to be condemning the choices you are making in life.

2. You talk about having a covenant relationship with God and yet don’t believe maintaining your covenant relationship with you spouse is important.

3. You are still angry about a disagreement with another part of the Body of Christ from 500 years ago and yet you can’t even explain why.

4. You suffer from shame. That feeling you get when you bow your head to pray in the middle of a crowded restaurant Or that feeling you get when someone talks badly about your God and you say nothing. That is shame. No one wants to be on a team that is ashamed of itself.

5. With your lips you say “as for me and my house we will serve the Lord” as long as it’s safe.

6. Instead of praying for boldness and strength you pray for relief.

7. You talk badly about the other Church across the street. You don’t talk to anyone from the Church across the street. You don’t know that you live next door to a person from the Church across the street

8. You go to Lunch after church and make a scene when the waiter brings you the wrong side item and then you don’t tip.

9. You don’t take care of your health.

10. You scream at your child from the stands during his T-Ball game.

11. You look just a busy as everyone else.

12. You don’t talk to your neighbors.

13. You don’t hang out with anyone who doesn’t look or believe like you.

14. You judge those who don’t have Christ but don’t say a word to those who do.

15. You don’t say anything about you faith to anyone. (Must not be that life changing)

16. Your life doesn’t seem to be changing

17. You have a Jesus fish on your car and yet pull up next to a person who cut you off and yell profanities through the window at them.

18. The only time during the week people hear you say the name of God is when it is followed by Damn.

19. You are just a drunk as they are.

20. You talk badly about your spouse in public.

21. You complain about watching your kids.

22. You check out and comment on every pretty woman that walks by (This is for both girls and boys)

23. You are critical

24. You are crass

25. You are mean

26. You have no remorse

27. You show no mercy

28. You show no grace

29. You offer no forgiveness

30. You look at this list and believe I am talking about someone other than you.



31 Signs You May Not Be a Christian

See above

2 Corinthians 13:5. 2 Peter 1:5-9. You can’t look up these verses because you have no idea where you Bible is.

2 comments:

  1. Picking out which of these 30, are me. Ouch.

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  2. Great thoughts, Markus. Thank you for putting them out there. :)

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