Choose Your Side. . .Protect or Destroy!

I recently did a talk to our youth group about being transformed. I used the new transformers movie as an example. Their website says, Choose your side Protect or Destroy. As Christians, we need to decide if we are going to Protect the witness of Christ or Destroy it. Are we going to protect our body soul and mid or destroy them. There is a great illustration with this movie. There is Optimus Prime and there is Megatron who is part of the Decepticons. In our Chirstian walk, how many times do we end up looking like something we're not. Do we have an Optiaml or Prime relationship with Christ or are we Deceptive? Optimal means most favorable or desirable; best optimal conditions, ideal, perfect. Prime means first in excellence, quality or value. When people see us are they seeing our relationship as desirable or ideal or do we masquerade as something we're not. Appearing to be a Christian on Sunday or at church events, but turning into something else when we are around others? Are we a sports car on Sunday and a destructive self anhilating robot every other day of the week. Blindly doing the bidding of the world until we are totally consumed and destroyed. God wants us to be transformed but once we are transformed he wants us to not go back to the way we were. So, I encourage you, Choose to protect! Protect the view of Christianity, protect the Witness of Christ or Destroy yourself: physically, mentally, spiritually and the Witness of Christ!

II Corinthians 11:13-15, Romans 12:2, II Corinthians 3:18, Phillipians 3:21