WHAT IS A RELIGIOUS CHAMELEON?

One of my most memorable pets growing up as a missionary kid in Africa was a large Chameleon. I loved the idea that it would change colors to adapt to the environment that it was in. If its surroundings were green, it would change to a green color. If its surroundings were brown it would change to a brown color. It eventually died, but the concept of changing colors for the sake of adapting is unfortunately the trend of modern Christianity.

When a religious chameleon is around church friends, he acts like a person who goes to church.

He prays, he sings songs.

He even goes to the church Bible study.

He may sing in the choir

He may be a deacon or elder

He may be a man of the cloth, and even preach from the pulpit

However, when he’s around his non-Christian friends, something very unusual happens. He starts to change. He starts to act like them.

If they smoke, he smokes.

If they tell bad jokes, he listens to them and may even tells bad jokes.

If they use the Lord’s name in vain he does not object, and may even blaspheme himself

If they get inebriated, so does he

If they are addicted to worldly movies, so is he.

The religious chameleon changes according to his environment or who he’s around. If he sees his Christian friends again, he immediately changes back into a Christian again. He really likes the many good things in the Christian life, but is not interested in being a true follower of the Lord. He likes the idea of a fire insurance to keep him from hell.

All chameleons die sooner or later. Mine did? But what happens to the religious chameleons after death. Matthew 7:21

Matthew 7:21King James Version (KJV)
21 “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

In Luke 16:28 we read the story of the rich man in hell. Isn’t it astounding that even in hell, he had an EVANGELISTIC PASSION wanting somebody to go and warn his brothers. If that is the impulse of those who are the damned, what kind of impulse do we the redeemed have, for the salvation of sinners that they may escape eternal hell?

Since we meet lost people everyday, and they are found in our church services every Sunday, should we not be calling them and warning them to repent as the rich man in hell has admonished us to do?

Brian
Sola Scriptura