With everything going on in the church and in our personal life I've put the blog on hold for a while. But now it's time to let it rip.
I had a discussion with a friend who owns a business uptown the other day and we got on the subject of believers devotion. Like why is it some go to church and claim to be Christian but really never act like Christ?
Neither one of us got it.
We couldn't understand how one can wear the name of Christ but act like the devil incarnate. Are these people going to heaven when their time comes? We decided we don't know for sure, and we can't say for sure. But I personally feel if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, no matter how many times it says it's an eagle - it's still a duck.
So no matter how many times a person says they believe in Jesus, no matter how many times a person goes to church and no matter how many times they throw money in the offering bag if they're not offering their entire life wholly over to a Holy God then I would say they are merely "Christian" in word and not in deed. Jesus said you can "tell a tree by the fruit that it bears" meaning just because a tree's in an apple orchard doesn't mean it's an apple tree especially if it doesn't drop any apples.
Anyways, I was impressed by the parellel between my friend and I's opinions of this same subject. Now you can call me judge-mental all you want but I'm just calling it as I see it. And let me tell you why I'm toasted about this subject using the metaphor from earlier. There are too many ducks out there calling themselves eagles which just FOWLS everything up because it makes real eagles look like a bunch of turkeys to all the other birds out there who need to meet the One who created all of us birds.
So now that I've had my FEATHERS ruffled and I've FLEW off the handle about this subject I can go back to ruling my ROOST and stop SQUAKING about it.
