Chameleons and Transformers

With the Transformers movie coming out soon, it reminded me of something my youth pastor taught about years ago. The issue was Christians living inconsistant lives.

Obviously, because I am old now, I do not remember the details of the message, but the point was that Christians should not live dual lives. I have seen it often, sometimes even been guilty of it myself. I have also heard it described as a chameleon Christian.

Here is what I mean. When I was in high school, I had my church friends and I had my party friends. Neither really knew the other and I wasn't about to introduce them.

I acted one way around my church friends, going to church, talking about God, made all the right comments to make me sound Christian...I appeared to be one thing to them.

I acted another way around my non-church friends. Mostly in an effort to be a people pleaser. I did not want to make anyone uncomfortable. Definately, no mention of the theology I knew to be true. I was a transformer, a chameleon.

In this technological age, it is even easier to be a transformer. The catch phrase for the transformer is "More than meets the eye". How easy is it for me to go to one site and be one person and go to another site and abandon the uncomfortable, offensive message of the Gospel and be what I think people would like me to be.

Fake.

Paul referred to this in another way. "For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."

Which side will you be on? Will you be a genuine follower of Truth? Will people know who you are and what you stand for? Or will you set Christ aside, when He is not convenient, to be one thing to the world and another thing to the church.

My hope for you, and myself, is to be faithful.