I hate that painting of Jesus. You know, the one where He’s limp, passive, and nice looking. He’s just not like that when I read the Gospels. 

Then there’s the modern day “Christian”. The nice guy. The quiet guy. The whatever guy.

In the passage below, Paul describes the Christian life with active and forceful words such as run, pursue, fight, and hold tightly.

It would seem like the Christian life is intentional, moving, progressive, and growing. This kinda ties into my last post.

I don’t understand the lazy “follower of Christ”, if they even are, who just sit around waiting for things to happen.

They like to run in place spiritually, relationally, and culturally. And maybe that’s one reason why the world mocks us on Family Guy and the Simpsons. Here. Here. We don’t really intentionally lead the people that are around us into knowing who God is.

We just talk a lot of noise and show them what He’s not. Good luck with that one.

1 Timothy 6:11-12 (New Living Translation)

But you, Timothy, are a man of God; so run from all these evil things. Pursue righteousness and a godly life, along with faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. Fight the good fight for the true faith. Hold tightly to the eternal life to which God has called you, which you have confessed so well before many witnesses.