// November 14th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // My Life
The whole “putting God in a box” is old news… The truth is we have talked about it so much we don’t even think about it when we talk about it … It has become a cliche that we can pull out when someone is being closed minded and difficult from a religious slant. The Gospel is another story, conventional christianity these days is extremely sterilized… I started realizing a few months ago that I had completely surrounded myself by christians, effectively insulating myself from dealing with anything outside of my comfort zone. I have since stepped out and joined a secular band, moved to a less expensive apartment, and started getting my hands dirty with life, I am walking way past my comfort zone. The truth is that I hit a wall… I got to a place where I realized that I was friends with people that I didn’t even enjoy being around because of the simple fact that they were… “Christians” We didn’t challenge each other, inspire each other, or otherwise contribute to each others lives… we just had to hang out because we were christians. I was a “Gospel Coward” I was glad to share my faith as long as I could gift box it and hand it off to someone, but the Gospel was really not alive in me either… I had boxed it up and made it safe… If only we could all see what we have done to the pure, amazing life changing Gospel by domesticating and sterilizing it! Michael Spencer at internetmonk.com wrote an excellent article called Gospel Cowards that covers this subject quite perfectly as usual… so I challenge you to go read the article and unleash the Gospel in your life… You might just start acting crazy like me!?
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