Typically, I'm a "boring Christian." My friends and I hang out, and conversation typically turns to our spiritual journeys and what we're experiencing. These aren't bad conversations by any means, but I believe that God can be glorified through conversations that don't even mention his name. Just because we're called to change our hearts and minds, doesn't necessarily mean that we change who we are.
God created me with passions, a sense of humor, and my very unique personality for a reason. I find joy by making my friends laugh, impersonating famous characters, and being a generally goofy guy. I love to go running. I enjoy cooking things that I've never tried before. I sincerely like buring myself in a fictional book and not leaving my seat for hours straight. I love having friends over to play board games. I think its a riot to sit around a table with friends and recounted our childhood stories. I think its refreshing to cruise with the windows down and blare my music just because.
Are these activities Christ centered? Not necessarily. Is my attitude while doing these activities Christ centered? Most definitely.
See, I don't believe that being a Christian always means going to only Christian concerts and discussing scripture or theology every time you sit down with a friend. I think it means living in the world, but not being of the world.
Have you ever caught yourself thinking that you have more fun hanging out with your friends that are non-believers that those that believe in Christ? I have. And its not because my non-believer friends do wrong things that I find exciting, or live counter-Christian lives, because most of them don't. I think its because their personalities are uninhibited. They embrace their bluntness, humor, and quirks. I think that as Christians, we tame ourselves. We don't embrace our personalities and uniqueness that God has blessed us with.
Its okay to be ourselves. Its okay to let Christ change our hearts and minds, but stay true to the way that he created us. We need to quit excessively worrying about guarding ourselves against conforming to the world, because I think the Spirit will help us win that battle. I think we need to quit conforming to who "The Christians" want us to be, and be who Christ made us to be. He has blessed us each with unique personality traits, gifts, and passions which all edify the body in different ways. Let's embrace them and quit being boring.
God created me with passions, a sense of humor, and my very unique personality for a reason. I find joy by making my friends laugh, impersonating famous characters, and being a generally goofy guy. I love to go running. I enjoy cooking things that I've never tried before. I sincerely like buring myself in a fictional book and not leaving my seat for hours straight. I love having friends over to play board games. I think its a riot to sit around a table with friends and recounted our childhood stories. I think its refreshing to cruise with the windows down and blare my music just because.
Are these activities Christ centered? Not necessarily. Is my attitude while doing these activities Christ centered? Most definitely.
See, I don't believe that being a Christian always means going to only Christian concerts and discussing scripture or theology every time you sit down with a friend. I think it means living in the world, but not being of the world.
Have you ever caught yourself thinking that you have more fun hanging out with your friends that are non-believers that those that believe in Christ? I have. And its not because my non-believer friends do wrong things that I find exciting, or live counter-Christian lives, because most of them don't. I think its because their personalities are uninhibited. They embrace their bluntness, humor, and quirks. I think that as Christians, we tame ourselves. We don't embrace our personalities and uniqueness that God has blessed us with.
Its okay to be ourselves. Its okay to let Christ change our hearts and minds, but stay true to the way that he created us. We need to quit excessively worrying about guarding ourselves against conforming to the world, because I think the Spirit will help us win that battle. I think we need to quit conforming to who "The Christians" want us to be, and be who Christ made us to be. He has blessed us each with unique personality traits, gifts, and passions which all edify the body in different ways. Let's embrace them and quit being boring.
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