The word needs more Christian leaders who understand the heart of the law instead of the letter of the law.... Ones who truly love and seek after God, not making it just about rules and religious ceremony, but about living a life in love with our Savior.
Obedience is born from love, not the other way around - you obey because you love, not love cause you obey. A lot of "christians" just don't get that!!!!! They live a lie, claiming the title without living out the heart. Life without passion, without understanding, without love, without God.... That's no life at all - only an empty shell of an existence, less than, even.
Passivity and "tolerance" for sinful lifestyles is slowly killing off true Christianity. We ourselves have become like the Pharisees, who Jesus himself so vehemently called "sons of vipers". We have put the letter of the law and religious traditions over the meaning behind the very base of our faith! even worse, we pick and choose only the parts of the Bible we "like", conveniently leaving out anything that might "offend" anybody, or that makes us uncomfortable! Forget anything about accountability, or how homosexuality is wrong, or about being saved by grace!!! No!!! Lets all live life the way we want, but go to church and do something good every once in awhile to make ourselves feel justified in our sin! By all means!!! It doesn't need to be PERSONAL in any way. We can stay in our safe little comfort zones. We don't need to stretch ourselves, or grow at all. Never....
How can you fight against something when everyone is living a lie they believe to be the truth you are speaking? I tell you the truth - it's easier to convert a self-proclaimed unbeliever, than it is to make someone who calls themselves a believer to wake up and realize the lie that they are living!!!! Sometimes I just want to scream and pull out my hair, because I see all the people around me, friends even, living a lie and believing it!!! They are just fooling themselves!!!! I can't even effectively explain the truth to someone unless they are willing to admit to themselves the lie... I hate how I can't seem to help anything!!!!
It's like I'm watching my friends walk off a cliff, and I'm up to my waist in tar - I can yell at them all I want, but I can't stop them from walking off that cliff if they won't listen to me. I can tell them "You are about to walk off a cliff and die!!! Stop before you fall off!!!!" but if they want to believe that there is no cliff, what can I do? Nothing.
Christians, believers everywhere, need to wake up and realize God is not just some distant, uncaring deity, but a close, personal, loving God. We are saved by grace and redeemed by faith. You can't work your way into heaven with good deeds, you certainly can't justify your sin, and just because you go to church doesn't mean you are going to heaven!!!!
One day we will each stand before the throne of God. Let me ask you this. Will you recognize his voice as the voice of your loving savior? Will your name be in the Book of Life? Will you run into his open arms with confidence? Or will you be cowering with fear and guilt, as God looks at you sadly and says "I never knew you". Do you know God as your personal Lord and Savior? Will Jesus recognize you as one of his own when you stand before the throne of judgement?
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