Rejecting the cultural Christianity I grew up with to embrace and enjoy a relationship with Christ. If you are still engaged in cultural Christianity get out, it will lead to hell.
What is cultural Christianity you might ask?
Cultural Christianity is one that engages in many rules that God never made. It follows an agenda for a better life on earth but has little to do with Christ.
These cultural Christians will say they are Christians but the words "Jesus Christ" almost never falls from their mouth and only if someone else does it first.
The cultural Christian follows all the rules of the culture but never seeks Christ for His truth in the Bible. They do not have Christ in them because they never repented and their is no fruit of the Holy Spirit that dominates their life.
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
The cultural Christian may even know a lot about the Bible but they are not interested in actually following what God said in it. They mostly use it to impress people without understanding His principles.
They will even claim to follow it while twisting it to justify their sin.
Cultural Christians say "don't judge" a lot because they know those two words but have not read the rest of the passage that says the opposite.
Sin is rampant in their lives but they think it is not. They operate from an attitude of superiority while constantly judging others for things that are not sins. When confronted about real sins they rage to defend it.
God said, "you shall know them by their fruit."
What is the fruit of the Holy Spirit? As mentioned in Galatians above, the fruit are the character qualities of Christ. When we are born again we will be full of joy, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled.
When we meet people who are not born again we are confused when they say they go to church or that they are Christians. Its because we do not see the fruit.
Lastly, cultural Christianity is one in which people attend church gatherings and say they are Christian but have never been born again. This is the state of most professing Christians today. They are professing but they do not possess the Holy Spirit. In fact, they generally are uncomfortable around those who are indwelt by Christ.
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