[펌] "Sexy Christianity"

when our desire to be stylish overshadows our desire to live for Christ...

http://kyledonn.com/blog/sexy-christianity

". . . Here is where “Sexy Christianity” starts to crumble. When a believer is more interested in the idea of loving Jesus than actually loving Jesus, then that is not Christianity. And we ought to wage a war of wrath upon it – mortifying, dismembering, and crucifying it, and then putting it in a tomb where it belongs. We ought to react in unconcealed hatred for it because it steals praise from God and puts it upon men, even if only in the most subtle and unassuming ways. Jesus told His disciples to “Beware the leaven of the Pharisees.” That is, to beware of the subtle poison of the flamboyant religion of the Pharisees… because it would destroy the whole body. Just as a Pharisee would make much of their tithes and their theological knowledge, so today many seek the glory that comes from spiritual-looking behavior . 

As Martin Luther once said, 

“A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.”

See, these secondary actions – loving the afflicted, visiting orphans in Africa, caring for God’s creation, etc. don’t cost us anything if we do them seeking a paycheck in the form of man’s praise. If our motivation is to roll with the most modern trend, then our actions are all eternally useless (James 2:17; 1 Corinthians 1:1-3)… unless they are done out of a simple overflowing love for Jesus… A response, if you will, to having been eternally atoned for on that day at Golgotha. And that love will quite possibly cost us the reputations we so desperately try to keep polished behind the P.R. of cultural normality. . . . "