Greatest enemy of the Christian faith

I voted item #2: Christians living like unbelievers. This is not only, I believe, the greatest blight on Christianity today, but is also the most widespread and pervasive. There is a term for this: secularism. Secularism being the living of one's life as if there were no God. Most of us spend our lives, or have spent most of our life living as if it were all up to us. We thrive on phrases like, "God helps those who help themselves." While we attend our church services, and contribute our time and money to "worthy" causes, we conduct the fundamentals of our life as if there was no one working a plan, not to mention even someone to lend a hand. On the day to day, we teach our children to be independent, while on Sunday we tell them to be dependent on God. We send them to a school for 7 hours 5 days a week, not counting homework, to teach them the secular way of life; and only 1 hour a week with no homework to teach them God's way - if we send them to Sunday school at all. Check out the Barna statistics. 85% of Americans claim to be Christian, but only half go to church more than just Christmas and Easter; and less than half of those attend Sunday schools regularly. Only about one-third of those who claim to be Christian will profess Jesus as their Christ and Lord! Think about the words: Christian faith - The words themselve say that we should have faith (belief and trust and confidence) in Christ Jesus for the salvation of all Humanity. If we make the claim with our lips and have not His faith in our hearts, then we are liars and for that we have our reward in God's wrath to come. To live every day as one faithful to Christ is not easy. It measn daily study of your Scriptures - not just to know them to hold your own in a debate - but to apply them to your lifestyle. It means when you hear Jesus say to love your enemies, you actually begin to try that; and then when you read that we fight not against flesh and blood, then you learn to make sure the people in your life are never your enemies at all; etc. Living the Christian faith might mean home-schooling, and it might not. The school one attends is not the issue - it is what one does with the lessons presented to learn. As for the Sunday schools, maybe we can go to our churches and consider to place a priority on Christian education on at least an equal par with secular education. Whatever we do, we need to do it for Christ first.

 

We are wrestling against wach other as many surmise. Our greatest enemy is unseen, the devil. Read Ephesians 6.

If you are wrestling with each other, your focus is all wrong and satan is standing back and laughing.

 

Anyone ever notice where the last democratic president came from? The place where they raise a lot of chickens. Chickens make a lot of noise and feathers.

 

If you love Jesus, then make it known. That's what He wants us to do. Live the life!

 

The human heart longs for God - that's inborn. When a lost person seeking God sees a Christian acting badly then he/she is more likely to think that Christianity IS just another human "-ism" which may or may not lead indirectly to God.

I think that Christians living like the unbelievers is probably the most harmful thing on that list. The others ARE problems, that's for sure.

 

A couple of quick jokes


I got behind a van with a bumper
sticker that said:
"Honk, if you Love Jesus!".
I loved Jesus so I honked.
The fellow looked all about even
missing his light. I guess his wife
put the bumper sticker on or one of
the teens.


I caught up with a pickup on the
interstate going down to Dallas.
The bumper sticker said:
"I'm Following Jesus".
I passed him, well, just to check
and see if Jesus really was up there