Cultural Christianity

Preparing for the 1 John sermon series has had me reading, thinking and praying about a whole lot of things. And I want to push some thoughts in your direction as leaders. Ultimately you have a profound influence on the teams that you lead. I realise that at points you may not feel like it is so, but God has called you and will use you...trust him and not your abilities here!

This is a longer post than usual and I'd encourage you to read it sometime when you can reflect more fully rather than rush through it...

One of the challenges I see in many places in society is what I'd call cultural Christianity. Cultural Christianity is when we are Christian by culture but not by actual commitment to Christ. Cultural Christianity is marked by a buy-in to some of the morals that Jesus taught: live good lives, go to worship once in a while, from time to time we might pray and even possibly read the bible. But cultural Christians are only Christians in the sense that they are not Muslim. There is no real depth or substance to their faith. Sadly in a partially Christian culture like ours there are many of them and some are even in our churches.