Living Out of Step
Get in Step!
Every soldier remembers that command. It looked so easy in the movies you saw as a kid. Files of soldiers marching along side by side, stride for stride.
Left, right.
Left, right.
Really it takes weeks of practice to learn how to walk in step with a lot of other human beings.
Unless…
But for the serious Christian, the man or woman who wants to follow Christ as His devoted disciple, being in step with the Lord Jesus means being out of step with just about everyone else.
If you’re following Jesus, you’re out of step with this pagan world.
If you’re following Jesus, you’re also out of step with most other Christians.
Pagans are all about the things you know aren’t important.
But so are most Christians.
Stay in Step
If your devotion to Jesus means that you’re feeling out of step with just about everyone else in your world, that’s a good thing.
When you’re staying in step with Jesus, you’re out of step with this wicked world and the irrelevant religiosity that most Christians settle for.
We’re studying a book right now at Church of the Open Door written specifically to those sold-out Christians who know they don’t fit in with just about everyone else, those who feel their status as aliens in a hostile world most acutely.
First Peter—you should read it. Or join our study online through our podcasts.
It will assure you that not fitting in with everyone who is out of step with the Lord Jesus is a good thing.
“Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those scattered as aliens…may grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure” (1 Peter 1:1-2).
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Thank You. For some time now when I’m out in public, around my family, at work I feel that others or myself are out of step. My relationship with Christ is as strong as its ever been. All I want is like Christ is to hold out my hand to others, to help, to share what I feel. But as of late I feel like a tree in a desert with only the living water to feed my soul. With all the people I know, I’m lonely. I googled “out of step with everyone else” looking for something, I’m not real sure what. My lord guided my search to your website to let me know that I’m not alone and just maybe I’m where he wants me to be. Again Thank You.
These feelings are well-known by the Lord you walk with.
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