Transformation or Inoculation?





It is amazing the things people "think" or "suppose" that God doesn't mind. It is unbelievable the things that people assume that God will bless. It was a shocking revelation when I realized that God isn't obligated to bless everything I do and even those good things that I do in His Name! If I were the Lord, and we are all very glad that I am not, I would be upset by all the quasi-christian thinking, talking and writing out there today. "Quasi" basically means "resembling something". Today there is obviously more "resembling" christianity than true Christianity. The reason I would be so upset if I were the Lord is that this quasi-christian mentality and lifestyle represents God and what people think of God. This only perpetuates more quasi or resembling christianity rather than the real deal.





The problem with this watered down, lukewarm and most often invalid form of christianity is that it inoculates new seekers from getting the real thing. When you are given a shot, like the H1N1 flu shot, you are actually given a little dose of the flu. The point here is to cause you to build up a resistance to the real thing if it comes your way. That is exactly what quasi-christianity does. It gives people a small does of christian antidote that makes them believe they have the real thing when in actuality they have been given a counterfeit. This counterfeit work work in crisis and won't fill the voids in the hearts of men. You see true Christianity is not primarily about getting people into churches or conformity, although these are important parts of our walk, it is about bringing people into the genuine presence of Jesus by exposing them to Truth. This relationship with Truth and Jesus, rather than insulating them from more truth, strips them bare and actually causes them to be more susceptible to catching the full blown condition of true Christianity. That is what Jesus was trying to get Nicodemus to see when Jesus said to him, "you must be born again". If there is not a moment in time where there is a confrontation with Jesus, Truth comes and that person walks away changed for all time, the seeker has been short changed.


In our efforts as believers, followers of the Way, let us make sure that we are not "giving them what they want" in order to gather and keep them and in doing so we have only inoculated them to the life changing message of the true Gospel.