Am I not a Christian if I don't confess or speak God's name so many times a day?
Am I not a Christian if I don't step foot into a door of a "church" every Sunday?
Am I not a Christian if I don't keep myself in some sort of bible study?
Am I not a Christian if I take a step and realize I became God, so therefore I keep silent?
Am I not a Christian if I see God in things that aren't "typical"?
Am I not a Christian if I'm not daily speaking against things "Christians" have deemed evil?
Just some questions as of late.
About Me
- Jewels
- Since I was two weeks old I have moved around with my family, was mostly raised in Mississippi, but found a home in Arkansas. I am a Christian, trying to figure out what God wants and trying to follow the path He has set for me. I feel I have always been in a dance with God. So this has been my life, following God, sometimes with passion, sometimes just following, and other times just not. All I know is He is my Father and I pray we always dance together.
5 comments:
Good questions. I've been wondering many of these things myself. I still believe in God and Christ but I've lost faith in "Christianity."
ditto.....
Those are people's views. What have they got to do with being a Christian?
It seems to me that being a Christian has to do with God having given me a present -- that if I am humble enough to accept His gift -- eternal life through my Lord Jesus Christ -- that I have passed from death unto life and am in the family -- whether or not anybody else recognizes it or not. Ha ha!
Yeah, I know it's difficult and cruel, at times.
I'd have only one query, and that's the one about "became God," which may, perhaps, be a typo, or such.
Other than that:
Finding God in atypical things is great! That's like finding new manna and not keeping the stale stuff.
Yes, people have their hobby-horses, even in Christianity. Haven't always thought them through, and often repeat other folks!
Still, I wouldn't say that is Christianity, although, maybe if you put it in quotation marks, the way one of your respondents wrote!
I don't reject my computer if I receive an application that doesn't work because it doesn't square with my reality. I just try to get a better application.
The folks with odd views may have been like someone who designs software in a hurry, without considering that it has to square with certain requirements or whatever.
It's not apocryphal to question views.
Oh, one question -- what's that about becoming God?? Typo? Other than THAT one, which you may yet clarify, I wouldn't get upset about the others. As for church, we know you've actually tried very hard to be there, lots of times, and may yet land there, when you've found something 'safe,' or whatever.
My questions to the self righteous pious church folks...
Am I not a Christian if I have no time feed to serve the downtrodden because I am so busy with church functions?
Am I not a Christian if I am more concerned with entering the pain in the lives of the people I work with than in questions of righteousness?
Am I not a Christian if I see myself as a politically right citizen american first and a christian second?
Am I not a Christian if my facial hair, my clothing, and my language are not inline with standards of a 1950's episode of Donna Reed?
Am I not a Christian....
wow, Kevin...good questions.
good to see you. ;)
are you proud, I'm blogging. ;)
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