My Christian Answers

Most professing Christians today, at least in America, have never faced this thing called suffering. In fact many believe that becoming a Christian makes everything peachy in life.

Biblical Christianity is far from a peachy life. The reason Christians do not suffer as much in America as Paul and others did is that Christians do not stand up for the truth of the Gospel. Probably because most don’t know the truth. Today’s “Christianity” is an easy one, “abc or 123″ and you have it. Witnessing consists of nothing more than asking someone to come to church (because most don’t know enough of the word of God to be a witness themselves), salvation consists of simply praying a prayer any time you choose and being baptized, and being”Christ like” only matters on Sundays. If there were more to Christianity than what we see today then there would be suffering.

For the true follower of Christ, suffering is not a possibility it is a certainty and a privilege (Phil 1:29). The apostle Paul invited suffering in his life, Phil 3:10 he says “That I may know…the fellowship of his sufferings”.

Christians in America need to change their thinking. A man that realizes that temporal things are not important and lay up treasures in heaven (Matt 6:20) would have a powerful impact on the lives around him. We need to challenge people as Christians, shaking the foundations that their faith is grounded in. Many professing Christians need to check their own foundations. I thought I was saved for years before someone challenged my faith. They told me things in the word of God that I could not refute. The things they told me went against what I had my faith grounded in. If it had not been for that person shaking my foundation I would not have found out that it was faulty.

Tell people the truth, invite suffering in your life. Tell someone that there is nothing they can do to earn salvation. Tell them that Christ finished the work of salvation when he put away sin (Heb 9:26) and all that’s left is to trust in the living savior. Tell someone that there is not a prayer that can save, there is not a baptismal pool that can save, and there is not one good work that can save. Tell them the truth, that only true faith allows salvation to take place, nothing more and nothing less. Tell them this and you will suffer for Christ’s sake and blessed are they that suffer (Matthew 5).

Two choices

1.) Invite his suffering into your life by standing on truth

2.) Do nothing

The choice is yours!