Taylor Swift openly give considerable sums to charities and so she just seems like a really nice, Christian girl, but are those the defining qualities of a TRUE Christian?
This is not a question that should ever be subject to personal opinion considering that we have an objective source for measuring any alignment with the Truth, and yet many admire her on the basis of their opinions about her and the qualities they happen to like about her, whether her true beliefs are in line with scripture or not. So, before copping such deep admiration for that woman, professing believers need to be more discerning and reserve their judgement for when they have more information as to what really colors that woman's inner world.
What about you? How do you align YOUR life, and with what? Do you color your world with smatterings of scripture here and there, along with the emotionally appealing elements and rudiments of this world, or do you seek to conform your life completely with the totality of the word of God in every way, never compromising with the world, nor looking to its seemingly nice and acceptable values and virtues that, in the end, prove to be at odds with the word of the Lord?
This is not a question that should ever be subject to personal opinion considering that we have an objective source for measuring any alignment with the Truth, and yet many admire her on the basis of their opinions about her and the qualities they happen to like about her, whether her true beliefs are in line with scripture or not. So, before copping such deep admiration for that woman, professing believers need to be more discerning and reserve their judgement for when they have more information as to what really colors that woman's inner world.
What about you? How do you align YOUR life, and with what? Do you color your world with smatterings of scripture here and there, along with the emotionally appealing elements and rudiments of this world, or do you seek to conform your life completely with the totality of the word of God in every way, never compromising with the world, nor looking to its seemingly nice and acceptable values and virtues that, in the end, prove to be at odds with the word of the Lord?