Country Club Christianity

When our Christianity is no more than a club, and we measure ourselves by ourselves, we have little sense of God or His holiness; there is only an attempt to measure up to those in the particular club in which we participate. When, on the other hand, we as individuals seek to know God, to be horrified at our sinfulness in every part of ourselves in comparison to His absolute holiness - to seek Him truly to the point where we indeed do hate and reject all else but Christ that would have dominion over us, it is then, and then only that we can truly be said to be followers of Christ, disciples, Christians. Then, as God is working in us individually as the several parts of the body of Christ, when we come together with other believers we shall truly be a church, instead of just a religious organization.