Hair dressers are a fantastic source of material for anybody looking for interesting topics about which to write, wouldn’t you agree? Regrettably, I have barely enough hair to warrant a monthly trip to the scissor queen or I’d gladly go more frequently just for the conversation. My stylist (can I have a “stylist” with this little crop?) is also a Christian… I didn’t plan it that way, she was a friend of my wife’s that I HAD to meet, so I tried her out… turns out she’s pretty danged skilled. Anyway… enough about that.
So, I’m sitting in Lynn’s chair and we’re blathering on about the state of the world and such when we get on the topic of people who think they’re Christians yet don’t really have any real idea about what that means. She almost chokes on her giggles as she laughs at a story I haven’t heard yet, so I’m alone with this one. Lynn… are you okay? Can I get you some water… and ambulance perhaps?
“Ha, I was talking to this woman just last week…”
She begins to describe a jovial farm gal: older, not much more hair than me, Carharrt overalls and a pleasant personality. She recalled asking her about her faith to which the woman replied, “Oh yea, I’m a Christian.” To which Lynn replied “So, you believe that you’re a sinner and that Jesus died for your sins and you’ve asked Him to come into your heart so that you can be saved?”
To which the woman replied… “well… I don’t know about ALL THAT!”
Funny isn’t it? What people believe about what they believe? That being a “Christian” has become akin to being Jewish, “a descendant of a Baptist minister on my mother’s side.”
It makes you wonder when you see statistics about so called “Christians” and how they’re changing faiths, or redefining beliefs, and such. Are these actual “Christ followers” or are they just related to Billy Graham?
How about you… what do you really believe?
Ok so where did you get that picture of me? Ron Mehl said once sitting in a garage doesn’t make you a car any more than sitting in church makes you a Christian.It’s a heart issue not a head issue.Like you said you can’t redefine it to fit your definition either you believe A.Christ lived, B. died so that we could be reconciled to God and C. resurrected from dead or you don’t! You can’t believe in and A & B and not believe in C and be a Christian.Come on you guy’s its all or nothing!It’s not who you know who knows him but do YOU know him!
That’s what I’m SAYIN!!!!