I want to express my frustration about something. I offer no way of fixing the problem. I only point the problem out.
I am forever obliged to tear down the pre-impressed pictures that people have of Christianity.
I was talking with my supervisor at work last night about how I want to do mission work, or pastoring, or some sort of Christian ministry. Somehow the conversation got around to a church of 4000 people in St. Joseph, MO. Many in his family go to this church. He told me that the pastor wears $1000 suits. I could tell. To him, this is Christianity.
But it isn’t Christianity. That is what frustrates me. Because of the rampant counterfeiting of the church, the name “Christian” does not carry the correct definition in mind of the world. When looked up in the world’s mental dictionary, the authentic description is rarely found.
It isn’t just the pastors who wear $1000 suites. It could also be the country church that is full of elderly people who go to it because everyone else does. There is forever an incorrect picture.
The world doesn’t know what Christianity is. And that isn’t because the name of Christ has never been proclaimed to them. That would not be so frustrating. It is because a counterfeit Christ has been proclaimed to them. That is frustrating.
