"The one thing Christianity can’t be is moderately important: either it’s
untrue, in which case it’s of no importance at all, or it’s true, in which case
it demands your whole life." --C.S. Lewis
When you put it that way... Although, with the focus on "Christianity"
there I am caught between a rock and a hard place- I think. Perhaps I think too much! I say the focus on "Christianity" like that because I feel that it has become associated with a religion or a church. Wouldn't it be better to say "The one thing God can't be is moderately important: either He is untrue, in which case it's of no importance at all, or He is true, in which case He demands your whole life"?
Maybe it is because of the way people have put the emphasis on Christianity...instead of God. If that makes sense. Like saying, "I'm a Christian but I still watch inappropriate movies; I still smoke; I still behave the same as the world does, but I'm a Christian."
Shouldn't it be something like, "I'm Christ-like and I do not watch inappropriate movies nor do I smoke or act as the world does"?
I don't think it matters what church you go to or what denomination you call yourself, but it most certainly does matter what you believe. That's where it comes in that God must be your whole life. If we find Him to be moderately important then we are not believing as we should.
(No offense intended; it's not up to me to take the mote out of someone else's eye when I've got a huge beam in mine. I need my own 'advice'...)
Much to think about! I think we would all be changed if our own personal emphasis was on Christ rather than Christianity.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your sweet comment on my blog! I had to smile because I feel asleep thinking I need to get better at writing reviews. ; )
Blessings~
~H
And therein lies the rub. I so want to honor God and worship Him as the Lord of my life. I want Him to be my all. But then I get all caught up in the busy-ness of the day, the minor crises, the responsibilities, cooking supper, and the next thing I know it's bedtime and I've hardly thought about God, except for maybe an arrow prayer or two. This is not what I intended!
ReplyDeleteI'm still trying to figure this one out.
I, of course, do not believe that any religion is ok as long as God comes first. But I do believe that God should come first. Give God's things to God and Caesars things to Caesar. God DEMANDS exclusive devotion. But if we are striving after anything other than God, than we aren't giving God's things to God.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that many 'Christians' put too much emphasis on the word 'Christian, rather than following what Jesus taught. That is what being a Christian is - to be 'Christ like'. To be Christ like, we must put God first just as he did. Someone said at a study that if we do Gods things first in our lives then add our stuff it all works out. Many times, being imperfect humans that we are, we put our stuff first and then find it hard to find time for God. It's much like sand and pebbles. If we put Gods stuff first (pebbles) then add our stuff (sand), the sand finds all the little spaces and it all fits in. But when we put the sand in first, the pebbles don't fit... I know I struggle all the time with this.