Lukewarm Christians

I just don't understand.  I have tried but I just can't.  Christianity is under attack.  It's criticized, put down, and knocked down.  It's pushed out of our schools.  You can't say "Merry CHRISTmas" for fear of someone heaven forbid being offended.  Some call Christmas trees "Holiday" trees.  What's this world coming to?  

Part of me thinks this is our own fault.  You heard me right.  Let me explain why I feel this way.  There are people claiming to be Christians that cut people off in traffic,  pick a fight with someone at the drop of a hat and back-stab a coworker for their own gain to name a few.  This my friends is the tip of the ice burg.  I'm talking about something more.  We as Christians seem to be happy with being mediocre.  We don't seem to care enough about our faith anymore.  We show up at mass just as it's beginning (or worse yet..late!).  During mass, we stand with our arms crossed like we're bored to tears with our eyes everywhere but on the priest and what's taking place instead of having our hands folded in prayer and eyes on the cross.  Society today is so fast-paced and we have such a need for instant gratification that we can't even shut our cell phones off for even an hour!  Fewer and fewer people participate in the parts of the mass (the alleluia for example.).  We tune out homilies instead of at least trying to listen and attempting to get something out of it.  

STOP BEING LUKEWARM CHRISTIANS!  We must be people of integrity.  People of excellence.  We need to start learning more about our faith not just for ourselves but so our lives can be a testimony for others.  This includes the children.  We make ourselves easy targets for Christian haters/critics (whatever adjective you care to use) because of the fact we don't care enough.  If we don't educate ourselves then we render ourselves incapable of defending our faith when people and groups bash our Christian faith.  Don't misunderstand.  There is nothing wrong with having questions.  My point is, we need to ask!  But we need to be sure we seek answers from reliable and trustworthy sources.  Sadly, most Christians don't seem to care enough to do this.

Perhaps if we took the time to learn what being a Christian really means and what it's about, then perhaps we'd be more equipped to defend our faith when people come against it.  Even better, perhaps Christians would be more WILLING to defend the faith.  It's imperative that for us to do this so that we can be not just able to pass the Christian faith on, but PROUD to pass our Christian faith on to future generations.

I want to be a better person for God.  What about you?