we have the don't. don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs, no sex before marriage. i hear this alot when i ask people about what christianity means to them. At this point i am just asking, is christianity something that removes you from society because you have a list of do nots? there are a lot of things as christians, we don't do or we do in a proper context. i think these are things that create a great culture, but there is a fundamental flaw that makes christianity dead with the thought process of do notting. We do nothing. that is what kills us. i mean, really, look around at all of us, including myself. i work, i go to school, i hang out, i work out. in the midst of this, where am i living in some radical way that displays the life jesus has given me? the reason why i think there is a lot of things that we should be doing is this:

sin cannot create; it only distorts. With that, by not doing what the world does, there should be a lot of things in our lives that the world doesn't do that we do. Since, we're taking away what the world does from our lives and putting nothing really in its place other than milder versions of what the world was already doing. There is a hole, a gap, something missing.

There is a lot of life in jesus. there is a lot of joy in jesus. i think we're called to use this to fill those gaps. so, for you, what is filling the gaps?