Are you a Church Christian?

You’re a Christian and so you go to church on Sunday, but what happens the rest of the week? When you wake up on Monday morning does God get the same attention as he did on Sunday morning, or are you too busy trying to get through the daily routine of life that somehow God is  forgotten about?  Perhaps you can even get to the next Sunday morning without God ever crossing your mind. Ok, so that might be a little harsh, but let’s be honest how many of us really put God at the focus of everything we do. 

As a volunteer for Nottingham Youth for Christ, God is my focus, but he has to be in order for me to carry out my responsibilities towards the young people I work for. I guess my worry is: am I a Youth for Christ Christian?   Because if the only time I’m focused on God is when thinking about work; planning youth sessions, asking God to best guide me in my mission with young people, then I’m just as guilty of a Godless life style as every other church Christian, just because my daily routine is based on carrying out Gods mission it doesn't mean everything I do is built on his foundations.  

Luke 6:47-49 states “everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will tell you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it was well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”    This means that we must build our lives on God’s foundations, we need to spend time with God, asking him for help and guidance in every situation, listening to what he’s asking us to do and act upon it.   We need to call upon him when we are at work, when we’re resting, socialising etc.  This doesn't mean shutting out our normal life, but including God in it, perhaps reading the bible before we go to bed and listening to God speak through it or praying whilst driving to work. It isn't easy but as it says in Luke we need to dig deep, otherwise when those hard times hit us (and they will whether equipped by God or not) we will crumble.  So let’s stop being church Christians, blow the dust of our bibles and start building our lives on God’s foundations! 

Abby Clark is on  a yfcone internship with Nottingham YfC

working mainly in Radcliffe with radcliffe Methodist Church

Her specialty is drama