Seriously

I have been overtaken by emotion and embarrassment and plain anger this morning. As I read this morning I'm being haunted by some peculiar evidence that seems to point to the atrocity that is our church life here in America. We all realize by now that God is sifting. Luke warm is becoming even more gross and I think it's becoming endangered. This is one extinction I pray for. Either get on board with actively following the example of a sinless, holy man or get out!I think the reason we experience such a rapid decline into mediocrity is the way we come to "know" Christ in the first place. We base our salvation on a prayer we repeat and then we take a seat and twiddle our thumbs for 60 more years of life. Is it supposed to impress God that we "accept" his son? He took on all the pain that the sin of the entire world carries and we "accept" him? Why do we think God wants us that bad? We are the ones that have the need here. We are the ones who should be falling on our face asking Christ to captivate us and lead us into the streets to do as He did. As sure as there is a Hell, God doesn't need us, and he didn't need a pardon for sin. He doesn't need another do-nothing civilian in the Lord's Army, no sir. That is not the gospel. For some strange reason we think it's our actions that get us salvation. Our "acceptance" and our "belief" gets us to Heaven, and that is really all we are shooting for anyway. It is this terribly misguided belief that cultivates stagnation in our churches. No one pursues holiness anymore. It doesn't end with a prayer of belief and acceptance. Guys, it doesn't even begin there. If that was the case, the Gospels would be the only books of the Bible, and we would only need a few chapters of those. It's a never ending pursuit that follows a never ending, holy Word. I hope everyone becomes a follower of Christ; a true lover and follower of Christ. However, we don't need another dead weight to fill a seat on Sunday. Really, we don't.