In my quiet times over this past week and throughout our whole series in Acts that we just finished, I have been continually challenged on this idea of "casual Christianity." More and more I am realizing that this "category" shouldn't be a category at all. I am realizing that there actually isn't such a thing! If I have truly experienced God then I should automatically display an outpouring of God's mercy which He has so graciously given me. I have the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead inside me! In Act's we see Paul with a singular focus of preaching Christ crucified with boldness! Oh that I would be bold for the Gospel and imitate Paul as He imitated Christ. There was nothing casual about the Christianity that Paul was displaying throughout Act's and there is nothing casual about all of the Christians that are, as I am typing this, being persecuted all over the world.
Don't settle for how the world has polluted the Christian faith, rather look to the Scriptures and see how it was meant to be lived out and pursue that with reckless abandon. We can't afford to do or be anything else. We don't need to look at Jesus as the top of our priorities, rather we need to see Him as directing and informing every situation and decision!
Is there evidence in our lives that we have been changed:
YOU ARE LOVED
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