Convenient Christianity - Part II

What if the conversation between God and Jesus went something like this?

~ “Jesus when you have some free time on your hands I would like you to go down to earth and die for everyone, but only when you have time and it’s convenient for you. There’s no rush and I wouldn’t want you to inconvenience yourself. You can do it whenever you feel most comfortable and it doesn’t matter what my plan is you can do what makes you feel good.” ~

Why have we allowed the world to tells us that living our life for Christ is about us, what we feel comfortable with, what is convenient for us and what we think is truth more than what God’s word clearly says?


Eph. 4:29 - Do not let ANY unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but ONLY what is helpful for building others up according to THEIR needs that it may benefit those who listen.

Phil. 4:8 – Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.

Col. 3:5 & 8– Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature, sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
But now you must rid yourselves of ALL such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from you lips.

As I read these verses I could not find anything in them or their context that indicates convenience or how we feel about it. They read very clear to me, yet we and I really mean me, continue to live convenient Christian lives. And we use our reasoning called “GRACE”.

There is a line in the song “Never Give Up On Me” by Josh Bates that says,
“Time after time I’ve used your grace as a way to do what I please”.

Ro 6:1 - What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?

1Jo 3:9 - No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

To be continued………