Is there enough evidence to convict you of being a Christian? Will you stand for truth, or duck your head because it’s not popular to hold biblical principles and Christ-like convictions?
Recently, Calvin Robinson said that to virtue signal is “to appear good rather than to be good.” We use to call such people “posers.” They look like something they are not.
Charles Spurgeon said it another way, “Let me ask you, how many atheists are now in this house? Perhaps not a single one of you would accept the title, and yet, if you live from Monday morning to Saturday night in the same way as you would live if there were no God, you are practical atheists.”
A Christian is a true believer and follower of Christ and His Word. Anyone claiming to be such while holding, approving, committing and/or following non-Christian and unbiblical practices is not part of the fellowship of the unashamed.
A Christian is one who lives by conviction, not by preference. Because of this a Christian will also die for those convictions. You may not yet be at the point where you would have to lay your physical life down for your Christian convictions and biblical principles, but every time you stay silent, or disappear from the conversation when an increasingly hostile, godless, immoral and unbiblical foe attacks and intimidates you into silent shame you’ve already died a little inside.
You, Christian, require more than virtue signaling and posing. Your true Christian conviction will drive you to repeat the words of the martyred Rwandan Christian, who wrote the night before his death, “I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still.”
Remember Paul’s encouragement to the Christians of Ephesus? He simply told them: “take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore…”
Stand with The Fellowship of the Unashamed.
Bob Moorehead, who wrote the book Words Aptly Spoken (1995), wrote that the author of the following poem was a man from Rwanda who in 1980 was told by his tribe to either renounce Jesus Christ or he would be killed. He did not renounce His Lord, and he was killed. Bob Moorehead wrote that the night before his execution the Rwandan wrote this poem as a commitment to Jesus Christ and it was found in his room after he was martyred.
I am part of the “Fellowship of the Unashamed.” The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is secure. I am finished and done with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, chintzy giving, and dwarfed goals.
I no longer need pre-eminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I now live by presence, lean by faith, love by patience, lift by prayer, and labor by power. My pace is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions few, my Guide reliable, my mission clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, deterred, lured away, turned back, diluted, or delayed.
I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity.
I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I must go until Heaven returns, give until I drop, preach until all know, and work until He comes. And when He comes to get His own, He will have no problem recognizing me. My colors will be clear.
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