You are a Christian, right? So, Can you live Christ life? Well I guess I want

to get a little more involved than that. I want to ask you if you can live

Christ life by your own effort!

If you're like me, you were probably brought up in a Church where pastor told

you every Sunday how you were supposed to act. He probably told you that you needed

to do such and such in order to be a "good Christian".

And what if that stuff was hard to do? If you had a problem with a certain sin,

what was advice that you received. How was it recommended that you go about

subject of "living Christian life"? If your early Christian education was like

mine you were lied to!

The way to success I was told was through willpower. Grittin' teeth and whatnot

and just to "buckle down and do something for God". No matter how uncomfortable it

may of seemed.

And uncomfortable it was! Are you still with me? I'm sure I'm not only one that

found burdens of Christianity hard to live with. What could be heavier than

burden of a God that was displeased with your level of performance? Nothing comes

to mind for me. Why then does Bible say this in Matthew 11:29-31:

"Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and

you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

And I'd bet dollars to donuts that I'm not only one that found myself failing

more than I was succeeding-am I right? Sure you might get nice and fired up about

being a good Christian once or twice but then you'd fail and "failure,

condemnation, rededication Cycle" would set in (to quote a phrase coined by Dr.

Steve McVey). After failure, I'd feel condemned that I had failed God. After

For many years of my life, I thought spiritual path had something to do with following one of major world religions or pursuing an Eastern practice. I even thought it had something to do with morality and ethics.

Today my comprehension of spiritual path has changed completely. Instead of complexity of any of disciplines to becoming a good person, I have found that path is simple. In fact, some of greatest atheists have followed it better than many theists. An example that comes to mind is famous British Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who lived an impeccable life of wisdom, compassion, and grace..

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” That is spiritual path. Everything else--all theology, philosophy, and practices--lead you to that singular ideal.

Physically, do you like to be murdered, wounded, beaten, or raped? Emotionally, do you like to be humiliated, disenfranchised, betrayed, abandoned, disrespected, alienated, and cast aside? Mentally, do you like to be cheated, swindled, lied to, vilified or misinformed?

Of course not. In fact, your whole body just cringes at thought of such mishap.

Yet, this is what we do to others. If we are truly savage, we abuse others physically. If a little more sophisticated, we abuse others mentally and emotionally.

And in this process we abuse ourselves.