{"id":2553,"date":"2015-05-26T15:29:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totellyouthetruth.net\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2015-05-26T15:29:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T19:29:17","slug":"unchristian-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/?p=2553","title":{"rendered":"unChristian Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christianity has been lied about by Christians to the unChristian world. Christians have let the unChristian world believe being a Christian means you are merely moral — not repentant sinners in need of continual grace only found in Jesus. Stop doing cultural sinful practices and replace them with something culturally right, and voila! You’re a Christian. Throw in a few Bible verses and “thank you, Jesus!”\u00a0and you’ve passed the litmus test.<\/p>\n

Be Republican, and you’re in the club.<\/p>\n

The moral majority<\/a> was all the rage in the 80’s. Christianity was a cultural phenomenon, the in vogue culture club that all the cool kids were a part.<\/p>\n

In the 21st Century, however, Christianity has lost its savor, its\u00a0being Christian of its -anity.<\/p>\n

Christianity has diminished in America<\/a> because the unChristian world sees no cultural benefits to outweigh the cross it would have to bear by taking on the label.<\/p>\n

Christianity that merely promotes (or more to the point, adds to believing in Jesus) certain hair styles, clothing, food, drinks, music and sub-cultural trends (or lack thereof) to be a Christian\u00a0still sends people to hell in a hand basket<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And the unChristian world is telling Christians, “the Emperor has no clothes<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

This sort of Christianity has left those seeking water still thirsty (Jeremiah 2:13). As a result, the unChristian world\u00a0no longer presupposes religious belief and finds traditionalism to be repressive<\/a>. Why should people believe in a God and “do right things” when they can do right things of their own making?<\/p>\n

The world does not need a to-do list. Nor does the world need a do-not-do list. The world needs Christ.\u00a0True Christians, not culturally savvy people who use the word Christian as a rung on a ladder of making our best life now.\u00a0Notice Paul says “do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh” to those who impose a to-do list onto believing in Jesus. That, too, is fleshly (Galatians 5:13ff; Luke 15:11ff).<\/p>\n

It is only when the chaff and dross of cultural Christianity gets burned up by persecution and tribulation that True Christians will shine brighter in the midst of a dark, unChristian world.<\/p>\n

Christ’s kingdom is not of this world. If it were, His servants would fight to prevent His arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now His\u00a0kingdom is from another place (John 18:36) where righteousness dwells and its fruit is displayed (Galatians 516ff).<\/p>\n

The unChristian world needs true Christians who love God and love others as themselves (Mark 12:30-31), who walk in the power of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16ff), who go the extra mile (Matthew 5:38-42), and speak the Truth in love (Ephesians 4:15); Not the Cultural Christianity of a country club.<\/p>\n

Cultural Christians will never stay Christian when the times get desolate\u00a0and persecution becomes reality. The unChristian world does not need Cultural Christians.<\/p>\n

The unChristian world needs Christian Christians — Christians who claim Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christianity has been lied about by Christians to the unChristian world. Christians have let the unChristian world believe being a Christian means you are merely moral — not repentant sinners in need of continual grace only found in Jesus. Stop doing cultural sinful practices and replace them with something culturally right, and voila! You’re a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[89,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-gospel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3hM8I-Fb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}