Although the Christian life is about transformation and the church is about changed lives, it’s incredible how most people don’t expect it. When we see people in the church and see no hope in them changing or even worse, when we, ourselves, get into a place in our life and walk that we feel like we could never change.
Sheldon Vanaulken wrote that:
The best argument for Christianity is Christians—their joy, their certainty, their completeness, their wholesomeness, their aliveness.
Guess what he says is the best argument against Christianity? Christians:
When they’re somber, joyless, self-righteous, smug, narrow, repressive, Christianity dies a thousand deaths.
Listen to what Dallas Willard says:
How many people are radically and permanently repelled from The Way by Christians who are unfeeling, stiff, unapproachable, boring, lifeless, obsessive and dissatisfied? Yet such Christians are everywhere, and what they are missing is the wholesome liveliness springing up from a balanced vitality within God’s loving rule. Spirituality, wrongly understood or pursued, is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
We must have it all wrong, cause there’s a lot of misery and a lot of rebellion. When we don’t even expect change and transformation in the life of a Christ follower, what are we saying about the power of Christ in their life?
God, help me to see that change and transformation is YOUR business. Release me from the bondage of hopelessness and free me to see your power working in me and others.
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