I recently listened to a song that asked this question.  Now I know the scripture is clear when Paul proclaimed “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”  I also think of verse like Luke 9:24 “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.”  I think of such verses and many times as christians we may say “sure I would die for Christ I would be willing to give my life for Christ.”  However when I think deeply about this I cant help but wonder why are so many willing to say they would die for Christ yet we are not willing to live for Him.

The deeper I think about this I ask this question is it easier for us to say we would die for Him then it is to actually live for Him.  God has burned a passion deep within my heart that has only grown more and more over the past several weeks.  I have been convicted of not only my personal evangelism but of what the church does for evangelism.  We are so quick to say we are willing to die for Christ but not willing to walk across our street and tell our neighbor about Him or to knock on the door of a stranger, or to talk to the cashier at the grocery store about Him.  We have become so desensitized to the actual gospel that we have quit sharing it and have used this attitude of “I am willing to die for it” as a cop-out.  It is almost like we live in some sort of fairy tale world where it is ok to say we will die for something without actually living it out.  I look at the life of Paul and see how eat, slept, and breathed the gospel of Jesus Christ.  How he was beaten, jailed, drug out of a city and left for dead because of the gospel.  Yet Paul continued on He id not stop, he did not quit, if anyone had a reason to stop it was Paul.  If anyone could come up with an excuse it was Paul.  When will we get over our mamby pamby christianity and begin to be moved with deep compassion for the Lost when will we be like Paul and share no matter the cost.

These are just my random thoughts.