Too often I'm willilng to settle for for a cut-rate version of Christianity. I hate that tendency in me. I call it "Good Enough Christianity." Good-enough Christianity, for me, mainly consists of belieiving the right things and keeping busy doing "churchy" things. The Good-enough version moves me toward focusing on the wrong things--even though they may be "good" things--ministry, for example, or at least some self-contrived, overrated idea of ministry...or worse, it usually causes me to lose focus of the most important thing: leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus.
It's such a rut, this Good-enough Christianity. The place I want to be, and I'm good at talking the talk (or even blogging about it)--but far too often I'm far from it, is what I call Spirit-Alive Christianity. Spirit-alive Christianity, I think, has three main components:
- God-hunger. C.S. Lewis said, "Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things." I put second things first way too much. Matthew 6:33 says, "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you." That's where I want to be: so hungry for God that he is first--always.
- Kingdom-hunger. This means that I long to reveal God to others no matter how they treat me. I've got a long way to go with this one.
- Holiness-hunger. This means to hate sin more than loving the pleasure it brings. Ouch.
Yeah, I'm hungry. Maybe I'm just not hungry enough.
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