Childish and Elementary

I am a child and I don't know many, many things. But one thing I do know as a Christian:If Jesus Christ is Lord

• If Heaven and Hell is real
• If Jesus Christ is coming back
• If the New Testament accurately reflects what happened
• If Jesus rose from the dead

Then our faith must become authentic, real, and spiritually centered. We can't live like the rest of the world, just as it is written, "So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking" (Eph 4:17).

When I call this our puerile and surreal world, I really mean our childish and unrealistic view of the world. When we live as if this life is ALL there is, we life just like non-Christians. I'm not saying that you ignore this world. On the contrary, you and I must be responsible, capable adults, raising our children, doing our jobs, paying our taxes, and showing respect for those in positions of power and authority in government and in the work place. We live on earth as Christians, so we must live on earth.

But there is s spiritual reality that those who are not Christians must resist - especially athiest - but we must hold too if we are to have any integrity in our faith. Living just like those in the world is spiritual childishness because we don't understand the ultimate reality - the super-set of reality that is bigger than life and death. This spiritual reality causes us to love the unlovable better than the morally upright atheist and non-Christians. This reality should cause us to STRIVE to be better employees, students, husbands, and wives. Our motivation comes from the spiritual reality we know and we experience because the Spirit of God lives in us.

This blog then, exposes the childish and immature ways we typically live and still call ourselves Christians. We must not be puerile in our too surreal world, just like everyone else. We must grow up into Christ, just as it is written, we must "make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love" (2 Pete 1:5-7). We must "grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ" (Eph 4:15)