Do you ever get bored with your Christian life? Do you ever feel like there’s something missing? Surely there is more to following Christ than merely avoiding bad movies on Friday and showing up at church on Sunday.
Is wearing cross laden t-shirts and carrying your Bible in front of your peers at school the sum of being the “Light of the World”?
Does it ever feel like God sucks all of the excitement out of life or that the gospel is all about not doing things? Or is there more to it all? Is there meaning behind the “don’ts” and the “do’s.”
Because, if there’s not, what’s the point? Why stay? Why not just walk away from it all?
Is this it? Is this the great call of the gospel? Is Christianity really this boring?
God forbid.
Christianity is about as boring as war, because Christianity is war. Yes, there are times when the training of bootcamp feels unexciting or unimportant. There are times on the battlefield when the fighting dies down and soldiers find it hard to keep their minds engaged and alert.
But war is never boring. And neither is true Christianity. Satan loves to deceive us into believing the Christian life is confined to the four walls of our “church” houses. He cripples us by presenting a safe but small God. He depletes our strength by appeasing our divine cravings with food of the flesh.
He laughs when we congratulate ourselves for spending 10 extra minutes in our often disengaged “worship services.” We restrict Christ’s power in our lives when we limit “devotion to God” to mere minutes of scripture and prayer every day.
We are right to be bored with this level of Christianity. We are right to be frustrated with the lack of God in our Christian experience. This level of purpose, risk, and commitment is disappointing for a community claiming to know and follow the One who invented the universe.
God didn’t design us to live on the sidelines. He didn’t die on the cross so we can spend 10 minutes a day thinking about him. He didn’t create you–with all your strength, intelligence, fierceness, and giftings–only for your biggest ambition to be living in a comfortable neighborhood, with a nice house, a lovely church, and a sanitized group of friends.
Following God isn’t always fun, but it’s always an adventure. Day-to-day life for a Christian is sometimes monotonous, but the grand scheme, the big picture is never boring. It’s a war. It’s dangerous. It takes dedication and preparation. It takes grit. It takes fierce men and fearless women. It’s daring. It’s grimy. It’s honorable.
God made you for glory. He made you for danger. He made you for adventure. That’s why I started my YouTube channel, Wild:Life: to start discovering what it means to follow this kind of wild, adventurous God.
I’m done with boredom. I’m done with apathy. Give me the God who invented the universe.
Will you join me? Subscribe to Wild:Life and join the ride!
C.D.
(This is a modified version of my original article on TheRebelution.com. You can read it here.)
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