I was not raised in a Christian family. Rarely did my family ever go to church. I didn't know much about Christianity until I joined the military and then I rarely attended. I rarely go to church to this day but one of the differences is that I look at religious shows on TV every Sunday morning and I look forward to seeing them.
I don't think that someone has to go to church to be a Christian. I imagine that many people feel different about that. I just think that you don't have to go to a fancy beautiful church to believe in Jesus. Being a Christian is believing in Jesus and living a life where you care about other people. I know many people go to church and for an hour or so they pretend they believe in Jesus. Then they will leave that church and talk bad about a black person, an Asian person, a disabled person, a person from Mexico, a Muslim person. They will go on the highway and scream about another driver.
It is my belief and my belief only, but to me these people are fake Christians. To be a true Christian, it doesn't stop when you walk out of that church or when you turn off the show on TV. Being a Christian is not a Sunday morning event, it is a daily, a weekly, a monthly, a yearly thing.
Being a Christian is showing love and compassion every single day. Congress is presently trying to do away with ObamaCare and push through TrumpCare. TrumpCare is not a healthcare bill but a bill that will give millions of dollars of a tax cut to the super rich. The ones that are voting to take away healthcare to millions of people so the super rich can get a tax cut are fake Christians. If they were true Christians they would show compassion and caring to the less fortunate.
Over four years ago my wife and I adopted a dog from a shelter. Soon after we got her home she had terrible and violent seizures. We could have taken that little dog back to the shelter, but there was no doubt that little dog and myself were put together for a reason. Our dog Cookie needed me and I needed her. I have spent many a time on the floor holding her and protecting her so she will not hurt herself. I look at it as a minor inconvenience. Cookie is my best friend and I will do anything for her. Last year it was $5,000. at the vet. Compassion and caring is what it is all about. I am a Christian, I believe in God and I care about animals, people, our planet.
I am writing this because I want people to quit being fake Christians. If you have hate in your heart, you are not a Christian. Being a Christian does not stop when you walk out of that church, it is an everyday constant thing. Love will beat hate anytime. A true Christian does not hate. A true Christian will go out of their way to help someone, an animal, anything that God has put on this earth.
Copyright Larry W. Fish 2017
