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The Three Types of Christians

When I travel I usually have more time to read and think. I dream about traveling for extended sabbaticals. To think and to write.

Anyhow this is what I’ve been thinking about today as I return from business trip from Seattle WA.

I’ve experienced (and have probably been myself) three different types of Christians through the years.

1) The Passive Christian – we are passive idle observers. watching the professional Christians minister while we observe, thinking we are being discipled (…forever discipled yet doing next to nothing that is spiritually significant) or we are enjoying the show- and are content with that. this type of Christian easily lives a double or a backslidden life whether they attend church or not.(common in 30s and 40s).

2) The Controlling Christian – we are in charge of everything in our spiritual (or so we think) we are earning favor and good standing in our church by good behavior, we tend to exaggerate miracles. It’s also common to see this type try to control others with positivity. We believe we must earn the right to be used by God with hard work and good behavior, and so we work very hard at that. Often getting burned out in our early to mid 30s. (Common in 20’s and teens, and newly converted Christians)

3) The Yielded Christian – this is the Christian who has learned to follow Jesus Christ above and before any other person. They do exist. This Christian follows Christ above all else yet still remains in fellowship with other Christians, they know not to isolate themselves. They’ve learned how to hear from and cooperate with the Lord from within, and they do that as best as they are able. They are ever seeking Jesus Christ and ever increasing in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. (This is a rare breed, I would guess about 1 out of 100.)

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Translation of Wesley into 21st Century America English.

Sometimes I think just because a quotation of a book is written in Old King Janes English we think it doesn’t need to be translated. It’s English after all. But it does, the language sometimes of British England of old is substantially different from modern American English. And translation is helpful. Here is a beautiful quote from John Wesley that I hope to translate for modern American ears.

Glory thine attributes confess glorious all and numberless!” – John Wesley (in 18th century British English)

So here is my attempt at a translation of this amazing quote into 21st century American English:

“Every detail about Jesus Christ shows how massive, how amazing, how wonderful, and how perfectly Holy he is. And there are an infinite number of characteristics of him to know. …Let us spend our days seeking to know every glorious detail of Him, more and more and more.”

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Mental Interpretations vs. Spiritual Revelations

Often there is a large difference between mental interpretations of scripture, and spiritual revelations of truth and reality.

The Differences

Mental interpretations almost always make Jesus Christ smaller than He actually is and is intended to be.

Smaller, less significant than, and less involved in our situations and our circumstances.

We figure out by study, mental interpretations. They are the result of intellect, the frontal lobe of the brain. But we come to understand from within the heart, or from a spiritual brother or sister explaining a spiritual revelation. Spiritual revelation must bubble up from the heart if they ever are to be useful to us or to others. Even Jesus could not access more than the brain of his disciples. When Peter acknowledged Jesus as the Christ. Jesus responded that it was “my father who revealed this to you …not flesh and blood” (which included Jesus at that time).

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