Lookin' like the world?

Do you look more like the world - or - like Christ?

You know when they compare those who claim to be Christians to the rest of the world both groups look an awful lot alike. Making the same kind of money, spending it in the same ways, similar educations, hobbies, desires, dreams, divorce rates...what I'm trying to say is that if you put a Christian & a non-Christian in a room together most of the times the look, act and respond the same to the world around them....

As I drove to work this morning thoughts of my tea encounter yesterday, a friends blog that I read and what the dj was sayin on the radio made me think...are we more like the world we're living in, or the world of our Savior? Do we care more about the rules of the world or the 'rules' of Christ?

We're commanded to 'love your neighbor as yourself' and I think we as individual Christian's and as the Church we often times fail. How many homeless guy's need a cup of tea or coffee in the morning and we just walk right on by. Or what if we pause and throw some spare change their direction but never stop to have a conversation?

How many times could the church open it's doors both literally and figuratively to our 'neighbor'? What kind of example are we setting for the rising generation? How many out there are the 'least of these' that we should feed, clothe, shelter, pray for/with, and just do something about. Yet, we sit by, and on a good day think - I really wish I could do something - but...

And we maybe hope that someone else will come along and do something about it. It's always easier to think 'someone else' will/should do something...the problem is each of us is a "someone else" - we need to stop looking like the world around us and start acting like Christ - it's then that we will begin to look like Him.

Today I hope to look a little less like the world and a little more like Christ! What about you?

Someone else for Him,
~C