To unbelievers, The Way of Christianity is often seen as fanatical, and that may not be a bad term. In fact, radical and fanatical is precisely the path followers of Jesus need to follow in a world that is largely going in the opposite direction. When believers are born-again, their old life in this world has gone away and their new radical, fanatical self comes alive.
“Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:3-4(NASB)
Christians are in fact, different. Frightened, insecure people often label different as crazy. Followers of Jesus present their whole being into fellowship with God so as to shine the bright light of truth on a fallen world. Followers of Jesus avoid the faithless pattern of living found in this world and focus on the spirit of God through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
“Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:1-2 (NASB)
Those of us who are followers of Jesus have a profoundly different position in life than those who have turned their back on God. Believers look different, act different, and respond differently to those around them because believers are, in fact, different. Believers are awesome eternal spiritual beings spreading God’s love.
“Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.” Romans 6:8-11 (NASB)
When you live for God rather than the pleasures of this world, some will call you crazy. When you follow The Way of Jesus Christ rather than the way of the world, some will see you as fanatical. Praise God that your light is shining in such a way that you are clearly seen as different. True followers of Jesus live and love to be different.
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