Small favor: Go to a city, walk around, and listen to people.
When did we (Christians) wake up to realize we're the minority?
When did Christian start sounding like a bad thing to be??
How can God be the only person we are allowed to offend???
"The United States is known as a Christian nation..." I almost feel ashamed to call myself American or Christian with that logic.
Do you know that almost every country looks at the United States as an influence of the Christian-way. Do you know what represents the United States to most countries?? Answer: Cable Shows (MTV, HBO, Starz, etc.), the government and how that makes the news, singers/actors/artists, YouTube....
Have you noticed that a lot of the wrong people are doing things "in God's name", and most mature Christians are doing nothing in God's name. That's how our faith has been perverted. That's how it has become so hard to share love with people. People are so set to "not offend" that we are forfeiting and allowing the meaning of believing in God to become something bad. We are to be showing God's love to everybody. As my Pastor frequently reminds me- we are missionaries in our own home/backyard/job/etc. Some (I used to be one) think "really, right here in the U.S.?" Do you know that the most Christians live in Africa and Southeast Asia?!?!?!? Let that sink in!
The United States... "the Christian nation" is possibly the least Christian nation in the world!
We can blame it on a lot of things. Government, economy, "these kids", that other country, the weather, modern times, technology... The main problem is this- someone didn't stand up when they had the chance. Look at the current Christian movies that are out: God's Not Dead and Do You Believe. (Spoiler:) They are basically about a person who is put into a position to either stand up and say something or look the other way.
There are a lot of people who look at Christians as hateful/judgmental people. I know quite a bit of that is from that persons' own issues and bitterness, but there's a lot of people who have genuinely witnessed that or that is what we have allowed to be presented to them. I cannot solve all the problems of the world, but it's upsetting to see lazy Christians or people who call themselves Christians but don't truly know what is in the Bible or what Jesus preached. It's our responsibility to hold those people accountable as much as it is to teach those who don't know. A contributing factor is that some churches today are about being a vertical church instead of a horizontal church. They want to build up (think Tower of Babel) instead of growing outward. "They get people, to get money, to get toys, to get more people..." {Paraphrased from Church Zero by Peyton Jones}
Confession: I don't have a Jesus fish on my car.
Why?: Flat out truth- because I know that I sometimes drive like a jerk and I don't want people to see that and think Christian. When I drive I try to work on myself in that situation, but truly I am trying not give someone another reason to be a Christian-hater.
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