The Perpetual Worshiper

The Story of the Common Christian.

I hate what the Common Christian has become.

• The CC that is ignorant
• The CC that hates homosexuals
• The CC that hates prostitutes
• The CC that hates other races
• The CC that hates drug addicts
• The CC that hates sex addicts
• The CC that walks, talks, and acts like a non-Christian
• The CC that cusses and curses
• The CC that listens to their HEART
• The CC thinks its okay to have sex outside of marriage
• The CC that dresses like a hipster
• The CC that is materialistic
• The CC that gossips
• The CC that likes Drama
• The CC that likes putting others down
• The CC that thinks its okay to do the wrong thing “Because Jesus will love them regardless”
• The CC that doesn’t carry a Cross everywhere they go
• The CC that has so many things wrong, that they need Jesus JUST AS MUCH as the non-Christian
• The CC that looks absolutely nothing like Jesus

Christians need to live out Hebrews 12:14 [Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord], and beyond that, to live out John 15:12-13 [12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends] for/to everyone, and even to go beyond and beyond that, to be willing to be Crucified for every single person, and to live and treat every single person no matter who they are, as if they would… so if said person[s] actually did get crucified and experience all the social, mental, emotional, and physical pain that Jesus endured, then those people would not be surprised that the person did that for them, because he/she treated them as such, he/she lived a life as a “living sacrifice.”

Read Romans 12. You’ll get the picture.

Read the entire Bible. Leviticus may be irrelevant in terms of content relating to the culture and the world the people lived in then… but its relevance [because I believe all scripture is God-breathed and timeless] is in the fact that its a book of the Bible that reminds us that the law is [and always was] impossible to follow perfectly and fully, and that if we look to the New Testament, God gave a new example for us to live by, one that may also be impossible to perfectly and fully replicate, but offers forgiveness and redemption for our transgressions.
 

 ”Jesus will love me anyway.” Well, do people who say that truly love Jesus? Did they follow Jesus because its convenient? Do they follow Jesus because it was the cool thing to do? Did they follow Jesus because He’s a “Get-out-of-Jail-Free-Card”? Did they follow Jesus just to feel good and to get rid of all their crap?

The more we, I and all people, understand the weight of our sin, the more we love Jesus, because we understand how inherently evil we are and how much we need Him to save us from ourselves and our sin. I mean people don’t understand how terrible sin is, and how its worse than disease, heartache, everything. They don’t understand the burden and weight it carries, because if they did, they would never justify their wrongs. As a result of understanding how evil we are and the weight of our sin, we realize we need Jesus. As a result of understanding how much we need Jesus and how incredibly amazing He is, the more we Love Him, desire to know Him and know His Word. 

As a result of all of that, of knowing Him and His Word; Loving Him and His Word… the Better we are at Loving People.

Because God is madly, insanely, desperately, undeniably IN LOVE with People, and He wants to spend all of eternity with them. 

How do people say they know Jesus, and that they love Jesus, when they don’t love people? It baffles me.

If you don’t love People then you don’t know, much less love, Jesus. 

What’s really awful is that the Common Christian say they love people, but they allow those same people to stay and live comfortably in their sin. The “CC” believe that this relationship with Jesus is about you giving all your crap to Jesus so you don’t have to deal with it. Essentially, what they describe it as, is that you are a plot of soil, and Jesus is a gardener, and that your relationship with Jesus is that you give Him the weeds that stick out above the ground, but you don’t let Him dig deep into the roots and plow and rid yourself of the deadly roots of the weeds, the things deep inside that keep you from growing fresh fruit, fruit that will grow and be beautiful. You are to give yourself, all of the soil which you are, to Jesus.

You are not to give your crap to Jesus, you are to give yourself to Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of our Faith. Jesus will make light of what you need to fix, and using a community of believers, the accountability of other people, discipleship, truth, and ultimately, Grace and His Word, He turn you into the Beautiful Garden He intended for you to be. 

This doesn’t sound easy, and that’s because its not. Its uncomfortable; it requires complete humility and vulnerability.

But its worth it.

Just not to the Common Christian.