Is That a Chihuahua?

Genuine vinyl? How many naugas did you have to kill for that naugahyde? I heard about a man who bought what looked like a real Polo shirt in Hong Kong at an amazingly low price, and after one washing, the horse turned into a chihuahua. Fakes. After all is said and done, no one will fool God (see Psalm 139). We can't flee Him, fight Him, or fake Him. He already knows.

Are the biggest fakes in churches with lists of standards? That's what many would like you to think. They would like you to believe that people in those churches keep all these regulations to impress people. After all, that would be why they would keep them, or why they did that. No, the biggest con men are those who call themselves Christians and have relinquished most of their standards. They want you to believe they are more spiritual because they either dance, go to movies, rap, rock, wear the short-shorts, or party. After all, "they're not perfect; they're forgiven." They act and look like the world, but still have the Christian moniker. Their claim to fame: they aren't trying to fool people like all these "fundamentalists" (separatists). They have this kind of genuine internal thing going that has a huge disconnect from externals. It is far better, far more spontaneous, far more gracious, and it really feels good. They have so many good feelings.

Here's what they are: they are actors with little to no discernment. What they have sold themselves as spirituality is actually existentialism. Being conformed to the world and calling it spiritual is like buying the chihuahua and calling it Polo. At the point of justification by faith we become partakers of the Divine nature. That changes our outsides---we are transformed by the renewing of our minds. Sure, people can fake the standards, but the real frauds are the worldly professors of Christ who fill the worldly churches predominant today. Big bark; not much dog---kind of like, well, a chihuahua.