I came across this poem a few years ago and it really spoke to me about my purpose in life, why I was born in the Kingdom of God as this time and what I was suppose to do. This poem allowed me to put my life in perspective in regard to how Jesus taught us to live.
CHRISTIANITY
A Christian is one who trusts Jesus as his/her Savior, submits to Him as Lord, and takes the New Testament as the law of his/her life – all should happen at the same time. Salvation is not a cafeteria line where you take what you like and leave the rest.
In every Christian Christ lives again. Every true believer is a return to first-century Christianity. The problem is how to maintain the simplicity of being just a Christ-ian, an en-Christed one amid the complexity of the modern religious set-up.
The Savior was spoken against (Luke 2:34). His followers were spoken against (Acts 28:22). Christians will be spoken against (Matthew 5:11). The Savior, the sect, the saints – we were never meant to be popular.
To some, Christianity is an argument. To many, it is an argument; to many it is a performance. To a few, it is an experience.
It is high time we learned that in this nervewrecking, maddening modern rush, we have let the spirit of the times rob us utterly of meditation, devotion, rest, the passive side of our Christian experience without which we cannot be truly active to the glory of God.
We have been saved out of this world; we still must live in the world; we have been saved to go back into the world to win others out of it, and that is the only business we have in the world.
God forgive us, in an hour like this, that we have been dry Christians, preaching a dynamite Gospel and living firecracker lives. Dr. Vance Havner
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