'The incessant need to be seen as cool must die' Megachurch Pastor urges Christians to stop living in the world

Many Christians in today's generation believe that they play a very vital role in this world. However, a pastor from the Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas believes very differently. Pastor Matt Chandler delivered a very passionate and powerful message about how Christians should stop living in the world and start living for Christ.

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MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - Chandler was very passionate as he talked about how some Christian's "incessant need to be seen as cool and relevant must die."

He argued Christians who still try to please the world after they have given their lives to Christ are like battered housewives who snuggle back up to their abuser after the countless times that they had been hurt. This, Chandler said, "is the saddest form of slavery."

Chandler continued to explain, Christians who still seek acceptance from the world who continuously persecute them and who relentlessly condemn them for their faith are slaves of the world, too.

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He said that instead, "Christians should embrace the marginalization that comes with choosing to follow Jesus Christ." Christians must not live in a temporal mentality but instead, they should look forward to living a new and full life with Christ in heaven, according to Chandler.

The storms of life may come but we have hope in Jesus. "We don't live for this life alone," he said. "We are the counterculture to this culture."

Chandler pressed on the issue that out there is great danger in forcing the image of Jesus to look cool just for other people to like Him.

"You're never going to make Jesus so cool that everybody thinks he's cool. Once you do that he's not Christ anymore," he added. "He's some figment of your imagination."

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