What if it were 50-50?
Posted by Cody on October 27, 2009
We are going to go with a general principle that is probably close to reality. Let’s say the world is split about Christianity 10-80-10. 10 percent are all in, devoted, adamantly love jesus and live it out. 10 percent are completely against the idea and oppose it in every way possible. The other 80 are in the middle about it. They are luke warm. Think they believe it, but doubt. Think they should live it out, but don’t….or most of us, proclaim to be the 10, but our lives don’t live like it because we don’t have the discipline, can’t commit, or don’t fully trust God.
I think that is a crappy way to do it. i think if you believe in something, you should actually believe in it. If it’s not worth going all in for, why are you attempting to do it in the first place? If you know what you believe, which you should for the most part because it should mean enough to you to figure out, Then go out of your way to stand up for what you believe in. On the fence Christians or apathetic Christians drive me nuts. And whenever my life looks like that it equally drives me nuts. It’s not worth it. Life seems to be bigger than just going through it.
So…
What if everyone picked a side. For or against God. The way it theoretically should be. If half the world was sold out for Jesus and the others completely out of the christian circle. What would the world look like? Or the biggest question…would it be better than what we have now or not?
I would argue that the 50-50 system is better. People strongly holding to what they believe to the point where their lives look like it. Sure, it would be chaos, but the church would never get a bad image, because the 80% before aren’t screwing up the church and what it looks like to the outside world. The church would look like it should…and evangelism would be heavy. So maybe the other 50 would start to swing assuming the bad eggs don’t ruin the good ones. I think this is interesting to think about. A shame we will never know for sure.
End point is that I think it’s better to commit to living for God verses going back and forth. I’m not saying I pull that off all the time. But we, the church, can’t keep doing this. We carry the church with us when we decide we don’t really wanna do it, and thus the tarnishing of Jesus’ gospel begins.
I dunno…Something to think about…
