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Call
to ALLEGIANCE
"Because
we’re so careful to keep control over our lives, we water down the
‘Christian life’ to the point that there is actually very little Christ
in it. We’re so concerned about it being user-friendly,
seeker-sensitive, open-minded, and non-offensive that too
often it can cease to be Christ-centered. In fact, if we’re honest, we have
to ask whether our life really reflects a commitment to a living biblical
Christ or to a ‘cultural Christianity.’ We learn to go through the religious
motions, use the Christian lingo, attend Christian meetings and events, but
we lack the evidence of a life transformed by Jesus Christ. As Pat Morley
well describes it in his book, Man in the Mirror, we create a god of
our own preference rather than the biblical God who calls for our
allegiance. We may even blame Him for the lack of fun and adventure.
"Yet that’s never how God meant it to be. He
intended life to be an adventure . . .and to be fully and holistically
integrated. God never intended to be confined to a box . . . or for any of
us to be in one either. In God’s view everything is sacred . . . after all,
He created it all. If we’re not careful, we miss the vital truth that ‘the
only real difference between the sacred and the secular is that the secular
doesn’t know it’s sacred yet.’
"The sacred was never meant to be relegated
strictly to the temple or the church. Instead, the sacredness of God’s
mission to bring everyone into a personal relationship with Him and to
become involved in His life-changing ministry to the world was intended to
penetrate every area of life, and to involve everyone
answering His call."
Bob Reccord & Randy Singer, Live Your Passion
..., p. 23. |
