On Christians

I think it was Ghandi that once said, "I love your Christ but can't stand your Christians" or something like that. Here in the West, we have this weird, stupid, wrong disconnect between faith and "religion" and the "real world".
We have 1/3 or so of our America full of people who say that they are Christians.

News Flash: Adding the enclitic "-ian" to a word turns it into an adjective. A Christian is someone who has taken Christ- literally, Jesus Christ, and made Him the adjective for their life. We are modified by Christ. That should be more significant than just a "thing" that we do every now and then with other "christians".
When you take the word out of its literal context, you get it to mean a "Follower of Christ".
That definition also doesn't quite see itself given justice in westernland. To be a follower of Christ LITERALLY means that you LITERALLY follow Christ.
That means you read the New Testament, find out what Jesus did, and follow it.

If i were to ever start a church, the emphasis would be on the basics; the most important things, and nothing else. Literally making our lives line up as close as humanly possibly with Jesus and proclaiming him as savior of the world. And not much else.

I've never liked "salvation messages". Don't get me wrong, but when you stand up in front of a group of people and try to convince them to change every single thing about how they look at their world and where they fit into it within an hour-long segment of time is just BEGGING to need the grace of the holy spirit to have any impact. I know that it's biblical that its only by the spirit that anyone can understand, but seriously... it would take a lot more than a single sermon to convince me to change everything about my life.
And i think maybe that's one of the causes of shallow Christianity. That maybe people don't understand everything that it means to call yourself a "follower of Christ", or maybe that their parents didn't tell them that and that's how they grew up... just going through the motions because no one ever said, "hey, there's an eternity more to this stuff than you can talk about in one sermon".
I dunno.
Follow Jesus, tell others. seems simple enough, right?