As the "religious right" (I'm including myself in each of these):
We fight gay marriage to protect the sanctity of marriage, yet our divorce rates are nearly the same as those who claim no religious affiliation.
We fight abortion yet we do not support Right to Life (and those they help) with our time or pocket book.
We fight to get prayer back in school, yet fail to maintain a persistent and passionate personal prayer life.
We fight to get the 10 Commandments put back on the wall of a courthouse, but fail to put them into practice in our own life.
We fight to get Creation taught in school but do nothing when there is a coat drive at school for students who have no winter coat.
We fight to keep "one nation under God" in the pledge, but fail to live our personal life "under God".
We fight to protect the right of Christians to speak their minds, yet we don't speak up for God around our non-Christian friends.
We fight to clean up the trash that movie and music producers are pumping out, yet we listen to and watch things that we would never dream of sitting through if Jesus were physically sitting next to us.
I am starting to ask myself, "What if we quit fighting everybody in the name of Christianity and just started living the Christian life instead?"
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Good stuff that every follower of Christ should read.
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