Our Language

 I am wondering as Christians, if we need to change how we speak, how we communicate to each other, to our church, to our fellow believers. I don't know.

The reason I ask this, is recently I had to fill out a survey for community groups. Now they asked a wide range of questions, but one of the question was how much time do you spend praying a day. It gave a wide range of multiple choice answers, such as: Non existent prayer life, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes and on up to over 2 hours. 

My Checklist

• Read Bible
• Pray
• Do a good deed
• Speak nicely to someone
• Be respectful to my elders
• Honor God

OK I did all those things, I am a good Christian, now I can go about leading my life. That is not what being a Christian is about. It is about living a life that is set apart that is different that is pleasing to God. We should be in a mind set of prayer, we should be different. We shouldn't have to bow our heads and close our eyes to pray, we should be able to pray when we drive, when in a meeting, when and where ever we are, because that is what God calls us to do. We should be so ready to fight the battle, that we are ready and full of fire and vigor that when the enemy attacks and he will, that we don't have to say hey wait, I have to go home to my prayer closet and close the door, to hide. We should be able to pray while we are sitting in a meeting or driving praying and calling out to God.

Isn't it time we change our language, change how we talk, in order to change our perspective to change what we are thinking, change what it means to others to follow Christ Jesus. Not about I, but Christ who lives in me. 

I guess, I don't know about other churches today, but are we teaching lukewarm Christianity or are we teaching Disciples to be all in. I go back to the Iranians and when asked to be all in, they dive feet first knowing they could be giving their lives up for Christ, but are we willing to give up or modern luxuries for Christ? Are we all in or just fence riding until something better comes along, or until it gets too hard? Life isn't easy, being a Christian isn't easy and for those who think it is, I have to ask what are they doing as followers.