I need to get this off my chest.

I feel like this past week at camp combined with reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan has been a big step in the right direction towards changing my heart and my relationship with God. My eyes have been opened and I've asked myself some hard yet necessary questions. Am I living my life centered around God or earthly things? If you were to take away my belief in God, would my life look much different? Am I being effective in this world for Christ? As C.S. Lewis wrote, "If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this." The thing is, it seems that Christians (myself included) have become too lukewarm. It's time for our faith to become our own-not our parent's or sister's or grandparent's. I feel like if we are really in love with Jesus, we should be shouting it from the rooftops, living excited about the One who died so we could have a relationship with Him! I mean, think about it for a minute. How much easier would it of been for God to simply let us continue living in sin? He didn't have to die, but He did because of His intense, furious love for us and His desire to be with us one day in heaven. How can we take that for granted and continue living for ourselves when we're put here on earth for a higher purpose? Life on earth isn't the whole story. Call me radical, call me a Jesus freak. But it's time for us to get serious about our faith and start living for Jesus Christ.

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