ARE YOU A JELLY FISH RELIGIOUS PERSON

A jelly-fish is a pretty and graceful object when it floats in the sea, contracting and expanding like a little, delicate, transparent umbrella. Yet the same jelly-fish, when found on the beach is a mere helpless lump, without capacity for movement, self-defense, or self-preservation. Sadly, It typical of much of the religion of this day, of which the leading principle is, “Just love everybody, don’t worry about basic doctrine, it’s just too divisive.

It’s easy to spot a jellyfish Christian or, or man of the cloth. They care more about what others think about their traditions than the truth of scripture.

 To use contemporary language, a jellyfish Christian is one who just won’t declare his beliefs. Nor is he willing to pay the cost for them. He professes to follow Christ, but when he is called upon to pay the price, he compromises, either redefining the Christian faith or denying it altogether.

Sadly, there are many jellyfish Christians and preachers today. If we are not careful, we can subtly become one too. We begin to compromise, shift our positions, or hide our beliefs in embarrassment and, we begin to pressure others to do the same.

Jesus, however, was no jellyfish, nor did he produce jellyfish followers, but disciples who would pick up their cross and die, literally. Matthew 10:34-39 

There are millions of religious people “tossed to and fro, like children, by every wind of doctrine; for example, Rick Warren’s “forty days of purposelessness,” and smiling Joe Osteen’s , “your best life now.”

Scripture mandates us to “preach the word, in season, and out of season” very clearly, but most of all to obey it without apology.