EBC (Evidence-Based Christianity)

For whatever is not of faith is sin. – Rom 14:23

It’s quite interesting that the Bible refers to Christianity not as “Holiness”, or as “Power”, or as any other positive virtue, but as “FAITH”. Indeed, a synonym for Christianity in the book of Acts was “the Faith” (6:7; 13:8; 14:22; 16:5).

We are saved by faith, we walk by faith and we live by faith (John 3:16; 2Co 5:7; Rom 1:17). Paul’s broad definition of “sin” was anything that occurred outside the realms of “Faith” (Rom 14:23).

Even today, Christians call themselves “believers”, attesting to the pre-eminence of “faith” in their lives.

It is therefore unfortunate, considering the nature of our spiritual foundations that many of us “Believers” regress from a life of faith to what I call EBC – “Evidence-Based Christianity”.

EBC is the kind of Christianity that constantly seeks evidences and physical, fleshly feedback in their spiritual walk and actively seeks such as validation for their spiritual exercises.

An EBC Christian is always looking for assurance that God still loves them, that the Holy Spirit has not left them, that God is speaking through their pastor, that their prayers are being heard, that the weekday Bible Study is “anointed”, etc.

An EBC Christian’s spiritual life rises and falls based on the external goings-on in their lives. An EBC Christian is not likely going to attend a church where there are no weekly miracles and ‘slayings in the Spirit’; and those of them who for some reason are unable to join such churches show little regard for their own pastor because he clearly does not have the ‘anointing’. 

An EBC Christian will not believe what is clearly written in their Bibles until the same verse is repeated – with much pomp and theatrics – by a ‘Man of God’. 

An EBC Christian is a ‘believer’ all right; that is, they only believe what they can see, hear, touch, taste or feel. EBC Believers are a danger to themselves, firstly because they lose out of an overwhelming majority of what the spiritual life is all about, and secondly because they set themselves up as easy targets for the manipulating antics of the Devil.

Beloved, we got saved by BELIEVING “As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him”

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN