Walkin the walk or just talkin the talk?

Dude WHAD UP DAWGS!? I IS TALKIN THE TALK AND WALKIN THE WALK! YEAH-YA!

Now to get down to business...

As Christians we are called to LIVE for Christ. Romans 6: 1 says this: What then are we to keep sinning that grace may abound? BY NO MEANS...

Christian, what is your duty here on earth? Answer: TO GLORIFY GOD (not flesh, not man, not the devil, not the world, etc..) AND ENJOY HIM (not sin, not your fleshly desires, not the world's offerings, etc.) FOREVER!

I ask you then Christian, are you REALLY living for Him? Are you WALKIN THE WALK, OR JUST TALKIN THE TALK?

Part of the reason that the non-believing want nothing to do with Christianity (other then the fact that they don't wanna give up their sinful ways..) is that they see SO MUCH HYPOCRACY IN THE CHURCH! A lot of atheists mention this.

Ask yourself, what the **** (heck) ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT!? I can point out several areas of hypocrisy in the church. But, one of the biggest areas that I've noticed is how a lot of us Christians are just talkin! We talk about how we need to reach the lost, we talk about how we need to reach out to the women going to the abortion clinic, we talk about how we need to be reaching out into this world that we live in and DO something, how we need to FIGHT for Christ, how we sleep in America yet there are brothers and sisters out their DYING for GOD ALMIGHTY in countries where God is banned. YET DEAR CHRISTIANS, IT IS MERE TALK ONLY! THERE IS NO ACTION! THERE IS NO DO! READ THE NEW TESTAMENT! THE APOSTLES DIDN'T JUST TALK OF SUCH THINGS THEY DID THEM! IF PAUL SAW AN ERROR IN THE CHURCH HE DIDN'T HESITATE, HE REBUKED THEM! JESUS REACHED OUT TO THE POOR, TO THE NEEDY, TO THE NON-BELIEVING, TO THE LITTLE CHILDREN. WHERE ARE WE AMONGST THE NEEDY, THE POOR, THE BROKEN SPIRITED, THE DRUG ADDICTS WHO NEED TO BE TOLD ABOUT CHRIST, THE DRUNKARD WHO NEEDS CHRIST, THE ANGRY HEARTED WHO NEEDS TO BE REBUKED ABOUT HIS MURDEROUS HEART, THE PRIDEFUL WHO NEEDS HUMBLING, ETC!?

We sit on our high thrones and worry about how "this particular church doesn't do a creed" "this church doesn't have wine at communion" "this church's worship service SUCKS" "this church's pastor's sermons ARE TOO SHORT" "yet this one too LONG" "this church doesn't have beautiful architecture" "this church doesn't do communion every week". Does this mean that we can't ponder over these things? OF COURSE NOT! HOWEVER, little things like THAT must be considered, but when you look around there are people who have NEEDS and the church isn't providing for those needs because we're too busy having family communion every Friday.

Christian, these things aren't wrong, but when "family communion" or things like that become a RITUAL instead of a time to come before God, then it's wrong! You know who you become like when everything is a ritual? THE PHARISEE! Jesus called them WHITE WASHED TOMBS! BEAUTIFUL ON THE OUTSIDE YET ON THE INSIDE LIES A DEAD CORPSE!

Live like CHRISTians..(i.e. like Christ calls you to live. if you don't know how to do that pick up your Bible and READ IT) should live! The world should look at you and not see a white washed tomb (i.e. "another one of those Christians" "another hypocrite of the church I suppose..) but they should look at you and see CHRIST IN YOU!

I ask you Christian, are you WALKIN THE WALK (by faith and not by site) OR ARE YOU JUST TALKIN THE TALK?

(See Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) Which talks about how there is a time for everything. There is a time for enjoyment in Christ such as sitting down for family communion, or family worship, or I have some friends who do this cool thing called Sabbath day feast. However, there's a time to weep with those who weep. There's a time to read your Bible. There's a time to go REACH OUT TO THE LOST. There's a time to meet the needs of others in the Church. There's a time for EVERYTHING Christian! So get off your pedastal because it is YOU who is UNDER Christ's FEET! 1 Corinthians 15:27 For “God [3] has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him." Get off your high and mighty pedistal Christian for YOU are MAN and NOT GOD, and go out and live like a Christian. Quit talking about how we should be living and START WALKIN AND LIVING AS YOU SHOULD BE!

This has been on my mind because I've noticed for quite a while now how we (I included! I'm not sinless in this situation.) get so caught up in the rituals of "oh yeah and we need to do this and we need to do that and oh no! oh no! if it isn't done in THIS PARTICULAR WAY as it always has..then ITS WRONG.." and forget about what NEEDS TO BE DONE! We become BLIND, and DEF to God and His calling to us.

Don't forget Christian whom you serve. Keep your eyes on Christ! It's ever so easy to get distracted with all the worldly distractions but don't forget! Go into the world (as Mr. Yadav once said in one of his sermons a lil' while ago) WITH YOUR EYES WIDE OPEN. See the world as it is, in all it's filth and shiver with joy for you know that though you were apart of that filth God called you out of the grime and you serve Him now! No longer are you naked in the dark running for fear that you will be exposed, for God exposed you, and He bathed you in His own Son's blood and clothed you in white linen.

I leave you Christian, with this amazing verse: "Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good."-Romans 12:9