Man, it would be awesome to go here.
Awesome.
Get Saved?
I get the sickest feeling when I hear the question, “So how many people got saved?”. Well, sixty people “received” Christ. Which means, they went up to the altar and knelt down while the Pastor prayed a prayer of salvation over them. In conclusion, they claimed to choose a life of following and loving Jesus.
That’s awesome. Really, I think that is a more than a beautiuful thing to want to follow God and and fall in love with Him.
So, why does this question make me sick? Why do I want to look back at him or her and ask, “Are you saved”?
Those sixty people are not going to fall in love with God. Some will fall back in love to their daily lives and routines. We aren’t saved because we SAY we want to live a life of following and loving Jesus. We are saved when we LIVE a life of following and loving Jesus.
I was “Saved” in eighth grade. I have to look back and kind of chuckle because nothing about me changed! For a week I might have been saved but after that I was not living for Jesus. So what good is it to be Saved but not in love in Jesus? Jesus Does not want lukewarm Christians.
In the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan, it talks about luke warm Christians. He talks about how there is no such thing as a lukewarm Christian. You are either a Christian or not a Christian.
Revelation 3:15-18 (New International Version)
15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
Francis Chan says, “Some of us only choose to change our lives if we think it affects our salvation”. We don’t do it because we want to but merely to keep us on the safe side; God’s “good” side.
After reading this section in Crazy Love I have examined my life and that I am not in Love with God and I am not living for God. I am not a Christian.
However, grace fills the holes in my journey with God. I’ll leave it at this. I’d rather make it on American Idol and sing than make it on American Idol and not sing.
