Radical Christianity
It seems like everybody these days thinks you can be a Christian and still be an ordinary person. You don't have to be so different from the world, you can in a sense blend in. They act like being a radical and and extremest is totally wrong. 'You should you, you can be like everybody else'. And everyone seems to be eating it up, glad to hear such false doctrine. But didn't Jesus stick out in the crowds? Wasn't he a little Radical? I mean he died for us! We are suppose to be lights in the darkness, and we're suppose to stick out and be different. We should be forever shining forth the Lord's love and light! As His children, as His followers, He told us the world would hate us. To be a Christian, to be the Lord's, means to be Radical, Extreme, Different. The world should see a profound difference between us and them; a Radical difference. Radical means departing markedly from the usual or customary. Should not we be markedly different from the usual, the world, and sin? We are told in Romans to be transformed, and NOT conformed to this world. We are strangers in this world. This is not our home, we do NOT, should NOT, speak the same language as the world, wear the same clothes as the world, do the same things as the world. We should speak the language of Christ, which is love, wear the armor of Christ, and pursue the things of above, rather then the things of this world. As Pastor Jim Feeney says, “I once heard a preacher thunder from the pulpit, "Let's stop pussyfootin' around!" He is exactly right! God's call upon His people is for radical followers — radical in commitment, radical in faithfulness and prayer and devotion to the Lord and His work on earth.” If you aren't radical, you have faith issues, and spiritual issues. For Christ is radical, and if Christ is in you, you should be radical. This wimpy, go to church on Sunday, read your Bible every once in a while, pray a ten second prayer before you go to bed, Christianity, that we have in America, and across the world is so totally against scriptures and faithless. To be a Christian means to be Radical. But I guess the watered down, wimpy, tolerant of sin, false doctrine of today, which is being preached everywhere, is a lot sweeter to eat than the truth. It always seems to be that way, unfortunately. No one wants to hear the truth. People like to have God there to call upon in times of need and trouble, but no one wants to have to die to self, or get uncomfortable.
It seems like everybody these days thinks you can be a Christian and still be an ordinary person. You don't have to be so different from the world, you can in a sense blend in. They act like being a radical and and extremest is totally wrong. 'You should you, you can be like everybody else'. And everyone seems to be eating it up, glad to hear such false doctrine. But didn't Jesus stick out in the crowds? Wasn't he a little Radical? I mean he died for us! We are suppose to be lights in the darkness, and we're suppose to stick out and be different. We should be forever shining forth the Lord's love and light! As His children, as His followers, He told us the world would hate us. To be a Christian, to be the Lord's, means to be Radical, Extreme, Different. The world should see a profound difference between us and them; a Radical difference. Radical means departing markedly from the usual or customary. Should not we be markedly different from the usual, the world, and sin? We are told in Romans to be transformed, and NOT conformed to this world. We are strangers in this world. This is not our home, we do NOT, should NOT, speak the same language as the world, wear the same clothes as the world, do the same things as the world. We should speak the language of Christ, which is love, wear the armor of Christ, and pursue the things of above, rather then the things of this world. As Pastor Jim Feeney says, “I once heard a preacher thunder from the pulpit, "Let's stop pussyfootin' around!" He is exactly right! God's call upon His people is for radical followers — radical in commitment, radical in faithfulness and prayer and devotion to the Lord and His work on earth.” If you aren't radical, you have faith issues, and spiritual issues. For Christ is radical, and if Christ is in you, you should be radical. This wimpy, go to church on Sunday, read your Bible every once in a while, pray a ten second prayer before you go to bed, Christianity, that we have in America, and across the world is so totally against scriptures and faithless. To be a Christian means to be Radical. But I guess the watered down, wimpy, tolerant of sin, false doctrine of today, which is being preached everywhere, is a lot sweeter to eat than the truth. It always seems to be that way, unfortunately. No one wants to hear the truth. People like to have God there to call upon in times of need and trouble, but no one wants to have to die to self, or get uncomfortable.
Philippians 2:15 ... That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Colossians 2:6-7-As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
If any man professes to call himself a child of God, a disciple of Christ, or a citizen of the kingdom, and yet is bereft of this radicalism, he would be well advised to take a long hard look at his Christian profession. Can it be real gold without this hallmark? [...]The radical Christian [...] is not a special Christian. He simply qualifies for New Testament normality.
~ Arthur Wallis, The Radical Christian, p15~
Revelation 3:15-17— I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm - neither hot nor cold - I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ``I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.''But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
Philippians 1:21-24— To me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labour for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.
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