Research Shows That Being a Christian Makes You Less Like Christ
How the church is failing to produce true Christ followers
The preacher man paced back and forth across the stage, banging his fist on an open palm, red-faced, with sweat pouring from his brow. He was building to the climax of his sermon and was about to deliver an impassioned plea to the impressionable young minds before him. I sat in the congregation, and boy-oh-boy, was I desperate to know what I needed to do to please God… or perhaps appease God.
Finally, the preacher arrived at the punchline of his message. He leaned forward across the pulpit and, with a pained expression on his face, delivered the knockout blow. He said…
“If being a Christian were illegal, would there be enough evidence in your life to get you arrested, tried, and convicted beyond all reasonable doubt?”
Then he repeated it for effect.
“Well, gosh,” I thought to myself… “I really don’t know if there would be enough evidence,” and I descended into a pit of anxiety, wondering if I were “Christian” enough for God.
I look back on it now, and I realize that the kind of “evidence” the preacher man was referring to was things like telling your school friends about Jesus, reading your Bible, praying…
