What Kind of Christian Are You?

It took me over five years of being in the Spirit to understand the world He brought me into when I became a new creation. It's been a long, difficult journey, filled with disillusionment, tears, heartache, and other hardships. But, after all the struggles, I finally saw the light!

The light went on as I was finishing up T. Austin-Sparks' "The School of Christ." Here's what Sparks' said in his book:

"Yes, we may get a very good idea for the Lord, but we have to submit it to the Lord, to be quite sure it is not our idea for the Lord, but the Lord's mind being born in us. It is very important to learn Christ; He is so other.

You see, this divides Christians very largely into two classes. Christians can be, in the main, divided into these two classes. There is that very large class of Christians whose Christianity is objective, is outward. It is a matter of having adopted a Christian life, that now they do a lot of things which they once would not do. They go to meetings, they go to church, they read the Bible, lots of things that they used not to do; and they now do not do quite a lot of things they once did. That is what holds good more or less in that class. It is now a matter of not doing and doing, not going and going, being a good Christian outwardly. That is a big class with its various degrees of light and shade, a very big class of Christians indeed.

There are others who are in this School of Christ, for whom the Christian life is an inward thing of walking with the Lord and knowing the Lord in the heart, in greater or lesser degree. That is the nature of it, a real inward walk with a living Lord in their own heart. There is a great deal of difference between those two classes."

I now realize that the main problem I was having all these years was that I was trying to fit into the first group of Christians - the "very large" class - instead of understanding that my revelation of Christ had put me solidly in in the second, much smaller class. I now fully understand that I've been in what Sparks calls "The School of Christ."

After reading what Sparks' wrote in his book, I felt as though a veil had been removed from my eyes - a veil that was preventing me from seeing the whole picture of Christianity - the truth about Christianity. There is great light from these three paragraphs in Sparks' book. Powerful light!

What kind of Christian are you? As Sparks' says, there is a great deal of difference between the two classes? If you are in the first class, may you receive the spirit of wisdom and revelation of Christ that allows you to enter into the School of Christ. The truth is there is no School like it in the universe. It stands far above all others.

Agape,

Steve