You don't know who you are until you know who God is,

and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of what will I live for that is worth dying for?

And there's an old joke that went around, and it says,

in the beginning, God made man in his own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment to God.

And there's a Jesus that has been created by the wandering minds of humans, and sadly, Christians included.

But this Jesus is not a person, it's an illusion.

Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and he doesn't need a makeover.

A Christian way of thinking is not just thinking Christian thoughts, singing Christian songs, reading Christian books, and going to Christian schools.

It is learning to think about the whole spectrum of life from the perspective of a mind that has been trained in truth, and the truth is God's word.

The Bible says, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ.

Now unfortunately, many preachers have distorted God's word, and sometimes it comes from a sincere desire to soften the hard hearts of people.

But hearts are not changed by compromise, they are changed by an encounter with the truth.

So if you tamper with the truth of God's word with a desire to get people saved to God, then they will be saved, but not to God, but to an illusion.

We are lampstands. Christ is all the light that the world needs.

We exist in order that Christ may shine through us. The world needs to meet Christ, and not you.

Have a blessed day friends.