Unintentional Christian Hypocrite

The unintentional christian hypocrite:

Yes that's right, self proclaimed Christians can be unintentional hypocrites.  You hear the good news of the gospel, you hear about the favorable attributes of Christianity, you are convicted to live a good life defined by christian morals and values so you join the bandwagon.  The bandwagon of cultural unintentional hypocritical Christianity. 

How does this happen?  It's simple, you responded an reacted to emotion in the midst of excitement. In that emotional high you missed the deeper meaning and purpose and therefor embraced the cultural Christianity bandwagon as a way of life.  Your spirt and soul were not in it, but your heart felt emotions and mind were.

So you joined the team and began to go through the motions of acting and behaving like a christian.  You read a bible, said some public prayers, attended church, stopped cussing, stopped drinking, and whatever else Christians do.  Your fatal mistake was that you never gave your heart, spirit and soul to Jesus Christ as your true LORD and savior to begin with.  You only made Him your standards and values to live by.

When Jesus Christ is nothing more than your standards and values to live by then you have become an unintentional christian hypocrite.  What am I saying?  Well it's simple, everything about you on the outside looks like and acts like a Christian because you want to be that way.  Your motivation is based on emotions, new values and better morals because you like and agree with Christianity.  So on the outside you look the part, but on the inside nothing has changed.  Over time you get tired, worn and stressed leading you to failure.  Your strength is gone because your emotions no longer sustain you then you succumb to what is really inside of you.   So all the while you were only acting and pretending to be what you really were not on the inside.  

Christianity begins with the total surrender of your life, heart, mind, spirit and soul to Jesus Christ as lord and savior.  It must begin on the inside and then manifest itself to the outside.  You must allow you sinful self to be crucified on the inside and then brought back to life in Christ. Christianity is the core of what you are spiritually, making you what you ought to be.  It all happens from the inside out and not the outside in.

Matthew 23:27-28  "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

May I encourage you to accept Jesus and allow Him to change you from the inside out? 

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