WWJD?

Last night I was reading Real Live Preacher and thought about the possibility that many mainstream Christians don't have crises of faith because they (in themselves) don't believe anything anyway. It seems the number is growing for whom Christianity is a lifestyle, not a faith. The bottom line has changed. So many things that are fruit of knowing Christ become the definition of knowing Christ. Is your lifestyle a result of your faith, or is your confidence a result of your lifestyle? I think the subtle confusion of this is why people feel that Christians expect them to clean it all up before they are worthy to come to Christ. If we judge ourselves based on our behavior, surely we must judge non-believers based on theirs. So moral people come, and they can be so comfortable among other moral people that it doesn’t even occur to them that salvation requires more than morality.
I touched on this in my response to Colson’s article in Christianity Today . Colson cites the practice of abstinence and the opposition to abortion and gay marriage as evidence of the death of post modernism, in other words, a renewed belief in transcendent Truth.
Because cultural etiquette has traditionally held morals in check, society’s embrace of Judeo-Christian values, and family values is used as the measuring stick of spirituality. Not just spirituality, but Christianity.
When our spiritual confidence is based on our behavior and morals, yea, even cultural mores, rather than our faith and communion with Christ, it doesn’t take long for our understanding of Christianity to be based on doing what Christ would approve of rather than being aligned with and knowing Him.