Casual Christmas?

There was a time in the 1970's when it was "cool" to be a born-again Jesus-person ... it lasted about a year. There were the hit songs "Going up to the Spirit in the Sky" and "Jesus is Just Alright with Me" and "The Lord's Prayer." Those were high times for us. And you didn't suffer so much for being a Christian. And many Christians had just a "loose faith" that didn't have to make up its mind about too many things, in order to exist and to survive. Not now. Not this year.
This Christmas finds Jesus-people at a point in history where -- there is no such thing as the casual Christian. The prophetic desire of Jesus is coming true "I would that you were hot or cold ... but you are lukewarm ... I will spew you out of my mouth."
There are quickly become only two kinds of Christians -- fake and real.
Are you playing Christian as much as you are playing Christmas this year?
Take advantage of the great opportunity to rave about singers springing the "Hallelujah Chorus" on shoppers. Say "Merry Christmas" and keep Jesus in it.
But once the holi-days are over ... take a look in the mirror and decide whether you are one of the fakes or the reals.
If you're a fake, you have an easy choice -- get real.
If you're a real, then you have a harder choice.
Does your stand mean that you believe the whole Bible or not?
Do you believe the anti-sense anti-logic presupposition-based time scales of the evo-atheists?
Or do you believe the history-based written record of the time scale found in the Bible?
Is Earth 4.6 billion years old, or is it 6014 years old?
This is an important question.
If you choose the world's time scale, be warned. It is inevitable -- your compromise will creep throughout your soul this Christmas like a blood poisoning. By the end of it's doing -- all of the vital organs of your faith-life will have been affected until you are useless.
Nearly every church or Christian group we go to ... has some leadership that contends for the worldly secular history -- against the Bible time-scale. It is a plague. Examine yourself for the symptoms.
Is there power in your walk?
Do you have the faith to pray the "desperate prayers" with the confidence of Hebrews 11:1?
Are people meeting Jesus when they meet you?
Are people getting saved?
Are you bearing the full fruit of the Spirit found in Galatians 5:22?
These are just a few of the many symptoms that a real Christian has become a useless one, through the selling of the power of God found in the Gospel (of which we must not be ashamed) in exchange for the acceptance of men (whose spirit strives always against the Kingdom of God).
As Billy Graham said, every hour is "The Hour of Decision." Make yours.
Happy Christmas. Keep thinking. Dr Jackson