Think and Do Christianity

Christianity in America today has become a performance based religion. Our linear mindsets coupled with microwave results have caused an alarming drift from a relationship with Christ. We "born again" Christians have boasted that our belief system is based on a relationship not a religion. However it grieves me to see too many Christian leaders who have fallen into a trap of performance. Our success driven churches have become more enamored with the bottom line than true intimacy with the living Christ.

We Evangelicals have been proud of our loyalty to the scriptures, thus we have had a measure of success in increasing the knowledge of the average person in the pew. Unfortunately most Christians find themselves motivated intellectually to obey what they have learned without taking the time to allow God to cultivate truth in the depths of their hearts. Thus there is no ownership, conviction, or real transformation. The result is, we try and obey what God's truth is telling us without the real inward motivation of the Spirit.

No wonder we are not seeing as many transformed lives. We have bought into a a think and do mentality, skipping the most important part: "the being".

When is the last time you really have allowed God some extended time to have truth penetrate your heart instead of taking the usual bypass?

I thought heart bypass was only in the medical world. Maybe not?