In the Crosshairs of Richard Neihmi

If Christianity were easy, everyone would do it!

Unfortunatly, those that have no intention of living the life of a Christian, still call themselves Christians and it makes the faith look bogus. This is what I say to those people!!!!

I love you, please stop acting that way for the better good of yourself as well as the whole.

Because that's the Christian response of course. Listening to Adrian Depres last week (for the second week in a row) really helped me come to the realization that a the large majority of "the church" is very likely just as lost as the non churched. I am guilty, as is every true Christian, of falling from what God wishes for me but if you're a Christian, you're doing things that are obviously deemed as bad by the faith, and you don't feel that bad about them, you aren't actually a Christian.

Holy spirit baby...keeps you in check and is the branch of the trinity that fills you with God's intent for your life. It comes standard with salvation so, one of the best ways to tell if you're really saved or not is to see if you feel bad about doing bad things...
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or are you still rationalizing them to yourself or to your friends.

Another surefire sign is to look at your "fruit." What is fruit? Anything that happens as a response to something you've done. Everyone has this fruit. If your fruit is good, shows that you are building people up, helping one another, keeping your heart pure, etc. etc. Then you're doing well. But if negativity abounds in what comes of you, or if your good fruit is only good fruit for you (things you do to make yourself feel better) then you could be in trouble.

A true Christian is someone who is radically different from the norm of the world. One of those people that others look and and go..."Grief! He's strange. Who would talk to a stranger like that, who thinks that way, who acts that way?" I'm just sorry that I'm too big of a loser to step up the way I wish I could. Turn your eyes...turn your eyes...