Bumper Sticker Faith

Has anyone ever seen the bumper sticker, “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven.” While this statement is true, many of us as Christians have left it as that. Willard comments, “The only absolute requirement for being a Christian was that one believe the proper things about Jesus.” (Spirit of the Disciplines, 23) I believe what Willard is getting at and what the world is begging for is to see people who are living in the Kingdom of God reality.

“By modest estimate, more than a quarter of the entire population of the United States have professed an evangelical conversion experience. William Iverson wryly observes that ‘A pound of meat would surely be affected by a quarter pound of salt. If this is real Christianity, the “salt of the earth,” where is the effect of which Jesus spoke?’” (23)

I have been so blessed to be around “salty” people. One would think that by one look that these people would glow or have halos on top of their heads. The reality is that these people have given themselves to training themselves in the ways of Jesus, just like any person would who wanted to learn a different language, become a great basketball player, or get a college degree. These people live in a different reality, one that believes Jesus really is who he says he is and that this means something for the world we live in.

I pray that we as Christians would be salty people, that we have a great impact in the communities that we live, and that the Christ filled life would become more and more real to us as we get closer to resurrection Sunday.