3 Ways to Be a Better Christian

     It gets me pretty upset that the word Christian pretty much means nothing anymore. Of course, you're probably thinking, "It's a follower of Christ, duh," but please, let's try to be realistic here. What does a follower of Christ do?

Go to church every Sunday. Check.
Youth Group at some point in life. Check.
Have a conversion story ready. Check
Date a Christian. Check.
Talk a big game with church friends then screw up in real life...unfortunately, usually check.

     Then you have your different kinds of Christians out there. Everybody has opinions but I can only speak for my experience:

     Us Catholics think we're the best and are sometimes prideful because of that. Evangelicals think we're the whore of Babylon headed for Hell (it's actually Jerusalem, read your Bible in context). Other Protestants think we're idolaters who think we can earn salvation and are only most likely going to Hell. Everybody else thinks we hate women, rape little boys and are stuck in the middle ages.

The over-generalized stereotypes I've noticed:

      Fundamentalist don't believe in metaphors except for John 6 ( and other Catholic leaning verses). Evangelicals are like the embarrassing little brother who talks too much and won't listen to logic or science. Baptists are either black or have a Southern accent, hate fun, and sing gospel music. Anglicans even confuse themselves on if they're Protestant, Catholic, both or neither. Methodists are halfway between Anglicans and Baptists. Episcopals have gay ministers. Non-denominatial Christians are just a denomination that doesn't think details matter but they have really fun names for their churches (ie: The Church Without Walls, The Refreshing Church or La Iglesia). Mormon's have lots of wives and get their own planets and even though they believe weird things and ride bikes they seem so normal and are REALLY nice.

     The problem is that being Christian doesn't have anything to do with any of this. Even being nice is only a minuscule element to the everyday life of a Christian. Now, we're almost to what you've been waiting for, or skipped to since it's bolded and you just wanted the list anyway. Christians, if we are truly followers of Christ must lay down our entire lives as witnesses of God. We will the good of all others no matter the cost (love/charity). People should be able to tell by the way we live that we are Christian. How? That's where the three things come in.

     I'm not going to explain them because I'm lazy. No, really it's because I want to encourage you to meditate on them in your prayer time today. These are three things that I think are relatively uncommon to be found consistently all in one person and I think I have none of them consistently.

1) Let everything you say be true.


2) Take responsibility for everything that you do, except the good things.


3) Do everything you do like it's a once in a lifetime experience.


Make the word Christian mean something. I'll be working on it too.

Peace.

P.S.   I  want to clarify that I am not a blogger. I'm a guy with a blog. Bloggers blog consistently and sometimes blog for the sake of blogging. I post a blog when I have something to say. Sorry to be lame.