Re-post if you're a Christian or love Jesus or want to get to heaven or believe in pudding

So, I am sitting in my office at church, after the two hour drive, and I should be working on Sunday's worship service, or my sermon outline, or be going over today's Bible Study lesson, but instead here I am about to write a blog.  The reason I am writing a blog instead of doing 'church' stuff is because I just checked facebook and it made me angry.  It often does, I will read something and just be set off, it could be someone being mean, it could be someone doing stupid things, but the number one thing that ticks me off about facebook are the posts from fellow Christians that say if you love Jesus you'll re-post this, or if you are scared to take a stand with God you will re-post this, and then usually it says something like "If you deny me among your friends I will deny you to my heavenly father."

GET REAL!!!!!

I can't imagine that Jesus was talking about facebook when he made that statement.  In addition just because I do or do not post something has nothing to do with my love for Jesus, my commitment to the church, or my ability to click my mouse button, maybe it just has to do with the fact that when I share my faith I want to do it in conversations and relationships not in soundbites or quirky pictures.  I wonder how many people that actually post those things still talk about people behind their backs, still treat their kids like possessions, still lie and cheat and destroy the people in their lives.  I wonder what their real witness is like, not their facebook witness.

I don't have definitive statistics about how many people get saved because of a facebook post or a tract in a library card or a strangers knock on the door, but I have to assume that it would be a low number.  I have to assume that most people who believe in and follow Jesus out there in the world do so because someone made him real to them, that in their moment of need perhaps a friend was there for them and they wondered why, perhaps their friend by just being a loving friend earned the right to talk to them about faith in God.

I do not deny my God, not on facebook or on this blog or in my life, but how many bumperstickers you have on your car is not equal to how much you love Jesus.  How many email or facebook forwards you do that say 'Christiany' things does not show how much you love the people that Jesus commands you to love.  Nor does how many Bible passages you have memorized, how long your prayers are, or how much you attend church...there is always someone who knows more, prays better, and goes more...none of that matters as much as showing people that you love them and by the by how much God loves them.

Thus endeth the sermon

Peace and Love,
Pastor K