What Are You Living, REALLY?

The issue of modern American "Christianity" is one that has been a hot-button issue lately.

I have faith in God because I have studied enough to know the history of things. I see no way around the fact that God is real. I have read many history books. I have also seen His love and work encompassing a magnitude of terrible things for the benefit of His glory and those who love Him. However, it seems that there are many Christians living in America today holding court to some white-washed Jesus that I don't recognize.

The Jesus of the bible was an outcast, a ragamuffin, a homeless carpenter who rebelled against modern priests, modern philosophers, and sought to serve the poor, the sinners, the lost. He said that He came to seek and save the lost. He bucked tradition, He called out hypocrisy, He loved the unclean, He dined with thieves, He washed filthy feet, He touched, healed, and walked around the Middle East for those souls the priests wouldn't even spit on. (To get technical, He rubbed muddy spit on them, but that was to heal them. Still, kinda gross.)

I am tired of the holier than thou, "I paid it forward in the Starbucks line." type of Christians I see everyday. They profess "Christianity" and advocate for things I can't see Jesus having supported at all; war, guns, nationalism over people, etc.

Many American "Christians" I have talked to want American to be a "CHRISTIAN NATION." They claim that the Founding Father's wanted that, too. (They didn't. There is proof they didn't. Many of them weren't faithful Christians at all. Many letters still exist about how they didn't want religion associated with the government at all. One such document is fairly widely recognized, the Constitution.)

Quick question: You want to explain to me how: You want this to be a "Christian Nation" but you don't want to take care of people?

You want the Government to be "Christian," but you:
... oppose universal health care rights.
... oppose paid family leave.
... don't support helping the homeless.
... don't support helping the orphans.

... don't support helping the marginalized.

... don't support helping the elderly.

... don't support helping those God commanded you to serve, care for, and protect.

... don't believe scientists asking for help to protect earth from the rapid onset of climate change.

... oppose gun control for the mentally ill.

... support the barring of immigrants.
... you support the bombing of civilians.

... don't support the Constitutional rights of others.

What is your faith in?
Where does it come from?

What do you think the Bible is about?

Are you serving God or are you trying to preserve some ideal, privileged life you are comfortable in?

You are not called to be comfortable.
Christianity isn't about you. It is about "CHRIST."

It isn't about praise teams, who wore what, how long the sermon was, nor any number of other things. There are people in your town dying of treatable diseases. There are elderly sitting at home alone all day, dying from lack of interaction. There are people in your town not sure how they can afford diapers for their baby, shoes for their kids, and food for the week. There are people here that you see everyday who need help.

Serve them. Not by paying for a coffee for someone else driving through Starbucks, but by opening your eyes, minds, wallets, hands, doors, ears, and heart to those around you.
Look at people. Really look at them.
Ask them if they need anything.
Get over your fear of societal appropriateness.
Get into the world.
Be in the world but not of the world. 

This was the life Jesus Christ, the man you profess to follow, lead and died for.
It isn't pretty. It isn't easy. It isn't comfortable.

It is just miraculous, inspiring, earth moving, glorious, and sincere.