It's not a hat!

I explained this to my kids the other day. Our Christian faith shouldn't be like a hat that we wear sometimes, and take off others. That's not deep rocket science... it's just rock solid sense. If I am a new creation in Christ, and the old self is gone, I shouldn't be putting on the old self mask when I'm around my old friends.

For me it's easy. I know for me to go back to the way I was is to die, pure and simple. I'm a recovered alcoholic with 6 years parole from the prison of alcohol, and that by the grace of God. God is my life support.

For my kids its different, as I'm sure it is for many people. It seems God makes people feel like a teenager when their parents show up. They're embarrassed... 'cause their parents are "SO Not Cool". Maybe some think God's not cool either. They're probably right, but that's probably exactly the point.

If we're embarrassed to have God in the room, or tempted to take of our "Christianity" in the presence of certain crowds, perhaps we are precisely where we are not supposed to be.

"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." 2 Cor 5:17

Be well, and don't settle for any lesser truth,

Jeff