Many of you have probably heard one preacher or another ask the question, "If it were a crime to be a Christian, would ,there be enough evidence to convict you? Can you think of any reason why anyone who works with you or is closely associated with you would want the kind of Christianity you show by the way you live and act?

Can those around you see Christ in you, the hope of glory? (Colossians 1:27). Why would your friends or even your own sons and daugheters want to be the kind of Christian they see you being? Do they see you full of the hope of someday being with Jesus forever? Or do they see you wanting to prolong your days on eart for just as long as you can? Do they see you really looking forward to the "catching away" of the church to be with Jesus forever, also known as the "Rapture?" When there is a need, do they see youy respond in confidence that truly "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." (Romans 8:28).
 

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why so many children of church-going parents become at best careless about their Christianity and at worst, absolutely hostile to the Gospel and Christianity? Of course many of you will lay all the blame at "peer pressaure" or the bad influence of their school classmates or teachers or television, but stop and think a moment. Of course we do live in a modern generation that has many frills and bells and whistles that simply did not exist when you and I were growing up, but human nature still much the same and is for children to follow the lead of their parents and trust their parents for sound advice. Oh, I know all the television "sitcoms" would have us believe that all children distrust their parents, but this is not a real generality. If your children do not trust your word more than thje word of any other person, it is probably because at some time they have observed you telling a "little white lie".