ronthedisciple
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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.
