The Greatest Problem With Millennial Christians

The greatest problem with millennial Christians is our incessant desire to compartmentalize our lives.

When we’re at church, we become our good Christian self.

When we’re at school, we become our smart and intellectual self.

When it’s the weekend, we become our fun-loving, have a good time self.

And rarely do any of these personalities we’ve created ever cross paths.

Somehow we’ve bought the lie that if we are our good Christian self enough of the time, God will have mercy on us and take us to heaven. He does love us with an unending grace right?

So we choose to stay as little baby Christians who go to church to hear great music and be convicted by great teaching, and once we leave the church we’ll enter into another one of our personalities and leave everything from church at church to pick it all up again a week later. When our faith becomes nothing more than leaving our normal life to attend church to make sure we’re good with God and forgiven of our sins, we’ve completely misunderstood our calling.

We’ve bought into the idea that the total and complete Christian message is that we’re sinners and God, through his great love, saved us. Christianity then becomes just something we accept, nothing else.

It doesn’t take much of us to simply believe in Jesus. In fact, that doesn’t cost us anything.

But following Jesus, that’s another matter. There’s no greater cost than following Jesus.

The challenge for us is for all of who we are to be wrapped up in Jesus.

The challenge is for us to lay down our lives for him.