Jack County Cowboy Church

Some people put on a good front when they know someone is watching, but the rest of the time they let down their standards. There’s not much difference between them and those in the world, except that they go to church a little more. Christians watch the same TV shows and movies for the same number of hours weekly as everyone else. Christian youths are involved in sexual immorality to the same extent as those not naming Christ as Savior. Many Christian businessmen have a bad reputation. It would seem that our Christianity doesn’t have much effect on the way we live. I know of no text that needs to be burned into the thinking of American Christians more than these verses. We are living in a pagan society where there is great pressure to conform, Peter calls his readers to holiness in light of the coming of Jesus Christ and the holy character of the God who calls us to salvation. The word “holy” means to be separated. Contained in the word is the notion of God’s purity, that He is totally separate from all sin. When God calls us to holiness, it means that we are to be set apart from the world unto God, separate from all sin. So are you an obedient child of God, or are you a rebel still enjoying the world. What's that old saying: It’s better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission, and hope for the best. "But what if it becomes to late, then what?"