Inaugural Blog Post

Well, hello out there,  blog readers! As you can see from the title of this post, this is a brand new mission field for me. I must say, I'm really excited!  My main concern in life is letting people in on the indescribeable love of God,  evidenced in His gift of Jesus.  Up until now I have been kind of a Facebook evangelist, posting whatever the Lord placed on my heart. You notice the name of this blog is called Following Christ in Today's World;  I wanted to give my perspective on what it looks like to follow a never-changing God in a constantly-changing world. The term for followers of Jesus is 'Christian'. However,  as many of my non-Christian friends have pointed out, if all the people in this country who claim to be Christians truly do follow the Jesus spoken of in the Bible,  why can't such a massive outpouring of God's power be seen today as it was in those early centuries?  Purely my opinion here, but if God never changes, shouldn't serving Him today look the same as it did then? I'm not talking about religious customs, I'm talking about obedience.  In today's independent society,  obedience is almost a cuss word. How in the world does obedience fit in with the "have it your way" world we have built around us?  These are the topics I want to blog about!  More later!