What makes Christianity radical is not the music or the lessons. What makes Christianity radical is not kindness or fairness. It is not doctrinal truth and it is not acts of service. These are all good things, important things, crucial things to Christianity, but they do not make it radical.What makes Christianity radical is when Christians act like Christ. When Christians love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them. When Christians consider the needs of others over themselves. When Christians serve widows and orphans for no acknowledgment and no reason but God alone. When Christians eat with sinners and tax collectors, regardless of reputation and pride. When Christians get burnt 490 times and keep coming back for more. When Christians take it on the chin, don't freak out, don't exploit others, don't harbor personal bitterness, don't throw people under the bus, don't seek to be heard, don't need a box or podium to stand on, don't fight for their way or their right or their ideals or their passions. When the Christian starts dying, only then does Christ truly live.
What separates Chris from Christ is more than just a letter "t." It is a cross. Until I understand this truth, my Christianity will be soulless, lifeless, and without power. Christianity was supposed to be radical. The cross makes Christianity radical.
2 comments:
Thanks for this Chris. It works beautifully with some of the other things that I have been reading and hear lately!
Hardest lesson there is to learn. I am only posting it because I'm trying to get it myself.
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