Being a member of Christ’s body isn’t about showing up at church every Sunday and Wednesday, being socially polite, regularly dropping something in the offering plate, and thereby, being considered a faithful, involved member. It’s about daily living as a real extension of Christ Himself, like one of His hands or feet. Have you ever got around to dropping the “membership club” mentality and truly taking on the mind and life of Christ?

Being a believer isn’t about trusting some essential teachings, subscribing to some nuanced doctrines, holding some personal convictions, and defending some favored traditions. It’s about trusting God with literally everything He speaks to you and brings to you in life and having faith enough in Him to give everything that is your life back to Him in the name of Jesus. What are you doing to make sure your faith isn’t about keeping a checklist of rules or perceived expectations, and is genuinely about being changed through and through for Him?

Being Christ’s disciple isn’t about doing good and avoiding bad. It’s about modeling your life after the only One who is Good and so living in such a way that when people see the good you do they’re reminded more of God than you. In light of all the good He has done, still does, and will do for you, will you not exercise yourself in offering Him your all, coming to actually adore Him in His holiness and abhorring all that is wickedness?

Being a Christian isn’t child’s play; something anyone can be about with only little effort. It’s hard, sometimes mind-wrenching and back-breaking, but always adult work. So just how serious are you about growing up and living a life of true responsibility?

In other words, what are you doing daily to deliberately bring discipline to your discipleship? What constants have you chiseled into your life to help insure that Christ is your chief concern? What practices are you performing so as to maximize the potential of progress in your faith?

What? What indeed?