Sunday Christians and Someday Christians.

There are a lot of people who profess to believe in Christ, but lead lives that don't really reflect it. Let's again look at the extreme nature of everything in the Bible. 1 Corinthians 10:31 reads, "Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."

I'm not sure how to eat or drink and do it for the glory of God. But somehow we're supposed to. And beyond that, anything else we do is supposed to be for the glory of God.

I think a lot of people like leading multiple lives. Being a Christian just on Sundays when we go to church, or putting on a different person for work to get paid more or get that promotion, sucking up to our professors to see if they'll bump up our grade for no real good reason.

Maybe we're just really good at lying to ourselves. We always want the best of both (or every) world, whether it's in school, with friends, with God, with work. We like to put our lives into little compartments.

And maybe in general, this isn't so bad... but if you profess your faith in Jesus Christ, it's a pretty serious problem. And I think we're all guilty of it. It's not that we're only Christians on Sundays; it's that we're only Christians during church-related events. Because of my involvement with my church, I spend a lot of times doing "ministry" things; small group, worship team practice, planning small group, "meeting up" with people for, and in, small group. And because five or six days of the week involve some sort of titled ministry activity, it's easy to think that I'm living my life for Christ. But to be honest, I think it's a pretty poor measure of how much I, or anyone, is committed to Christ.

It might be more of a measure of how committed we are to our church, or to people, or to this idea of serving others, but without Christ at the core of all of these things, they're kind of meaningless. And if Christ is at the center of these things, at the center of your entire life, then these titles are actually no measure at all of your dedication to a life spent chasing after God. Maybe we need to take a second look at our lives and really see what we're living for.

I think it's pretty rare to see someone that is actually doing everything for the glory of God. Though it's something we will undoubtedly always need to work on, we should be more aware of how far away we are from fully giving ourselves to Christ.