Do better, they tell believers yet try as they might, those pastors - even with much grace and faith - fail. Oh, they preach a good line, abusing congregants for not measuring up to the Biblical standard for a life of meaning, purpose, and direction. And their pastors, by the way, do the same. They spend a few hours on Sundays (and maybe on Wednesday) having preachers tell them what life is all about, only to spend the rest of that week’s 168 hours living as if they didn’t hear a word their pastors said. Evangelicals yearn for Christ-centered lives, but “life” tends to get in the way. With their lips, Evangelicals say these things are true, but how they live their day-to-day lives suggests that their lives are every bit as “wasted” as those of the unwashed, uncircumcised Philistines of the world. He is their e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.Įverything I mentioned in the previous paragraph can be found in the Bible. To Evangelicals, Jesus is their BFF their lover their confidante their therapist their physician and their spouse. Everything pales - including families, careers, houses, and lands - when compared to Jesus. This is a life focused on what matters: meeting Jesus face to face in the sweet by and by. This, according to Evangelicals, is a life of meaning, purpose, and direction. Everything in this life and the life to come is about Jesus.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. Sacrifice your life, ambition, wants, desires, and dreams, giving them all to Jesus. In the eyes of Evangelicals, non-Christians live lives of wasted years years that could be spent worshiping Jesus, praising Jesus, singing songs to Jesus, bowing in fealty and devotion to Jesus, giving money to Jesus, winning souls for Jesus, and doing good works - drum roll please - for the man, the myth, the legend, the one and only King of Kings, Lord of Lords, giver of life and death, the one true God, Jesus H. Below you will find the lyrics and two music videos: one by the Blue Ridge Quartet and another - quite masturbatory - rendition by Jimmy Swaggart. A popular song years ago was Wasted Years by Wally Fowler. Evangelicals would have non-Christians believe that life without Jesus is empty, worthless, and without meaning.
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