When you read books (fiction or non-fiction) about people in times long ago, do we see them in the constant 24/7 state of praise, worship, reading their Bibles, mentioning Jesus, etc?

The answer to this question is No.

Then why do we hear of a Christianity that is trying to push a mentality of you have to be a 24/7 worshiper, Bible reader, etc. to be consider a ‘real’ Christian, spiritual, or part of the ‘remnant’?

I was looking in the fiction section of a major Christian book site and I saw all these fictional books of an ‘innocence’ of life on a prairie land back in the 1800’s. It reminded me of the mentality of most Christian media that somehow wishes that we could go back to the utopia innocence of 1800’s prairie lifestyle. I therefore did some research of this life and remembered a television show about ‘A Little House On The Prairie”.

I started looking at clips online of the television series based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and I rally noticed something about the life on the prairie.

It was hard
Charles Ingalls worked very hard for his money at the lumberyard
Their house was small

Compare this with the modern Christian mentality of success defined as a nice house, fancy car, easy work in the financial field, and being mega-blessed. We clearly see Charles very hard at work but we saw him work. In other words we saw him be a natural person. We saw him greet people with respect whether it was the parson, Doc. Baker, or Mr. Oleson at the mercantile. From “Hey Mr. Oleson” to “Have a nice day Parson”, we saw natural conversation and not “Hey Mr. Oleson, Hallelujah” or “Have a mega-blessed day” Parson”.

The point I am trying to reach across is If these people can act so natural and be a deeply spiritual people and survive everyday life, then why can’t modern Christians act natural and survive?

Because we have been sold a lie, and we bought it hook, line, and sinker. And we have have to attempt to lie and rewrite history to make the lie appear as truth.

We are convinced every Sunday morning that we need to live life as it is an eternal church service and not life life by the way of the Bible. We have to have our 24/7 Christian radio to where we can participate as ‘dancers’ on ‘Worship Bandstand every Sunday morning with special guest singers who some lip-sync / lip-service’ through the special. We have to add the Christian cliche words to ’sneak in a salvation call’ with our ‘Have a Blessed Day’. We have to have our Christian tv and our Christian conspiracy shows exposing the latest hijack by the Democrats and the liberal evil secular news media and failure to send Christian tv some money will give us super curses and kill God out of America via the Democrats and the ACLU.

Many excellent blog writers have written about this concept of the ‘Christian Ghetto’ subsidized by Christians with communes of look alike people in their look alike environments with many so content to stay where they are at and go no further in fear of being devoured on the outside.

What ended up happening was the thing that was supposed to set us free actually bound us.
What happened was that the concept called ‘accountability’ turned into being ‘nosey’.
What happened was that action turned into reaction that we tried to convince others that it was ‘proaction’.
What happened was that the thing that was supposed to empower made us co-dependent.

Charles Ingalls was just a natural person who worked and went to Church on Sunday Mornings and showed us Christian love by his actions. Life to him was taking care of a family and not an eternal church service where he was so heavenly minded that he was no earthly good. Charles Ingalls did not wait in one episode to kick out the newspaper that printed yellow journalism for a mega-fast, made sure every church member’s tithes were paid up, nor march seven times around the newspaper headquarters. He took action and got the men together to stand up to this newspaper editor and the newspaper and the editor left town. If this was in the life of the eternal church service, today’s Christian would have had made sure he listened to Christian radio seven days in a row, done a mega-fast, had a 24/7 prayer rally on Friday nights, made sure tithes were paid and his children confessed secret sin, made sure he voted for a particular candidate, sung the chorus of his favorite worship song twenty times, had his car fixed by the Christian car mechanic, etc. before even considering whether to fight or wait next week when all of these things would appear to be more in order.

Acts 16:13-14 says this:

And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there. Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.

Doesn’t say she conducted her life as an eternal church service. She worked as a seller. Nor does it say that she sold ‘Christian purple’ (with a cross on the label and charging three times as much). Hmmmmmm

It’s time to live life once again the way God intended for us to live it. By being supernaturally natural in the world we see and not create the microcosm world and stay there.