
Was thinking of what to say first and well, what about a start with the heading itself? Church-goer or Christian? If you find yourself in church every Saturday or Sunday, then it's a question to answer. There must be a difference between the two. Many people that find themselves in church every Saturday or Sunday may argue and say that this is no tough/hard question and would evidently classify themselves Christian. There is no need to rush to classify oneself because the truth remains. Growing up in church does not make one a Christian but qualifies oneself on a 100% scale as a church-goer. In fact the majority of church-goers are those of us that have grown up in church. We are used to church services, we know what to pray(not HOW to pray) and we know exactly how to respond to whatever sermon so as to remain "Christian".
We know difference the Truth makes but we never embrace it. We have comfort zones where our self reigns and no-one else treads. The whitegarment we wear is black inside, yes, we know it's black inside and thereby contrarily choose to wash the vessel outside instead of the inside. We have eyes like eagles whenever faultfinding so as to satisfy our gossip thirsty mouths but choose to remain blind whenever we see or hear the Truth. We know that the Bible is the inspired Word but choose to consider it a book with nice stories. Our hearts accommodate only certain types of sermons, yes, we are not overzealous of anything, we know how subscribe the real Christian. We love church functions for we get to talk there ...
Then there is this Christian who wears out after having stayed in the church for a long time. No, he was not brought up in the church, the only problem is that he has stayed stagnat for a long time. He steadily begins to create comfort zones and join the earlier mentioned group until he is a full-time matured church-goer. But one thing about church-goers is that we know that the world is wrong and that we ought not to live according to its standards. Wdon't want to give ourselves fully to Christ, we are holding on to some few things of the world. We accept this man called Jesus as our Saviour but not as our Lord. We want to have it our own way and we have really taken advantage of this thing called grace. We always say, "There is always tomorrow". We know the darkest secrets of our hearts, our souls every day cry in agony for redemption but we suppress it. We know we are lukewarm, something our saviour doesn't want but for some reason we continue. We are scared of what man will say about us and therefore we have this image behind which we hide every Sunday. Yes, we have traded the alter for a stage where we worship things of man .....
No comments:
Post a Comment