There’s no such thing as an “X-Christian”.

Let’s imagine that it’s a beautiful spring day and you walk to the park to eat your lunch under the shade of an old oak tree.

As you’re eating, watching the squirrels chase one another, listening to the giggling children as they play, a man in a wheel chair rolls up to you and says, “do you mind if I join you?”

“Of course not”, you say, “the more the merrier!”

So he pulls up alongside you, takes out his lunch and you begin to talk. After a while, the conversation turns to his wheel chair.

Awkwardly, you ask, “If you don’t mind my asking, how did you come to be in that wheel chair?”

“Oh, this thing?” he says with a laugh, “well, you see, about five years ago, I was crossing some railroad tracks and I was sure I could beat that train. I guess I was wrong. The train ran over me. Took off both legs and about 20” of intestine.”

You’re horrified. “That’s terrible!”, you say.

He looks at you with a reassuring smile and answers, “Oh, it’s OK. You see, I don’t believe in trains anymore.”

That’s insane, right? I mean, here the guy is, sitting right in front of you, two legs sheared off and a colostomy bag at his side to testify his encounter with the train.

The Bible tells us that when a person has an encounter with the Living God, there will be discernable, demonstrable evidence. Just as this man showed physical evidence, so will Christians show spiritual evidence and character traits that the Bible calls the “fruit of the Holy Spirit.”

There’s no such thing as an X-Christian. Either they’re showing the evidence, or they’re not.