Are You a Fake?

Tired, doubtful, disappointed, but feel you have to put up an OK front for others' sake?

Joy in service diminishing?

Finding church and all its peripherals too much trouble - dying to cut back to the bare minimal?

Tempted to leave it all?

Detecting something fake within your heart? In the church?

Read this book!

Faking Church by Dan Schaeffer.

A good read!

He suggests that a "fake spirituality", a fake Christian walk, a fake church starts insidiously. The original intent may be pure, but along the way, seeds of defection set in. And as more and more of us get tainted, the church gets tainted. (little wonder, then, why so many leave the church, but not the faith.)

I'm still in the middle of it, and already i have been made aware of the numerous "seeds of defection" in my heart. So many symptoms i can identify with, so many examples that read like they were taken from my life.

Well, if the first step to transformation is recognition of my problem, i think i'm on the first step...So ugly!

haven't reached the solution part though. Geesh.

Can't wait...

Search me, O God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.

Amen