Christians in America

Well, its kinda been a long time... wow.



This is a speech that I did for English class this last Monday because it has really been on my heart lately. If it seems short it is because it had to be 2 minutes. I may expand more on it later, this is a challenge to everyone.







This nation is becoming a very dangerous place for Christians to live. I mean this not in the sense that we are persecuted but that we are not persecuted. Christianity in America is becoming more and more dangerous the more that it becomes so “ok” with every one. When the day comes that people on the street will absent mindedly say “oh yah, I’m a Christian” and can know nothing will happen to them, that is a sad and catastrophic day. We are living in that day! It is great to live in a place were you can pray freely and worship freely and it has many benefits but I think the consequences far outweigh the benefits. As a result of this freedom of religion Christianity has become watered down and people who claim to be Christians look just like the rest of the world. They may say they are just not extreme Christians or they aren’t super good or super godly but they are “ok”. This is wrong! We cannot be luke warm in our stand! Claiming one thing and doing another. What if we lived in a time of extreme persecution, like in the Roman days? I can guarantee that a good majority of “Christians” would no longer claim that. They would slip in with the crowd to save their hide and avoid the atrocious tortures and deaths that were occurring. Christians who refused to denounce Christ or who lived out boldly for Him were burnt at the stake, burned with hot plates of steel, dragged though streets, tied up in a dead animals and tossed to a lion or bull to be mauled, they were pierced, lacerated, whipped, had their bodies disassembled, and suffered so many wickedly evil and unbearably painful things that we cannot even imagine. Let me ask this question of you today. If you had to take a stand for Christ or just live like a Christian with the threat of those few things that I listed, would you? If we were suffering persecution would our persecutors be able to persecute us? Would they have enough evidence to convict us of being a child of God? Do you stand strong enough for Christ that you would be persecuted? Or would they see you as being on their side?


This society is dangerous because people are going to hell every day who claimed to be Christians. Are you misleading others to think that they are saved because they look just like you and you claim Christ? Because you did not live out for Christ or talk to them they never really new what it was to be saved, how sad.



Since the world won’t do it for you, you need test your true colors and test your heart to see where you stand. Don’t be deceived, satan will use any means he can to make us stumble, one of these ways is watering down the gospel and what it means for us to live like Christ