Are we, the modern American Christian, that claim to be the light bearer of the truth of God's holy scriptures, actually at odds with the word that we proclaim? Are we following the true Jesus, the biblical Jesus, or simply an imagined Jesus that we prefer to follow? The modern, American church in no way resembles the church that Christ founded in the First Century. We have gone completely off the map. We have essentially closed the Bible, the only real source of truth and we are off in another corner of the shelf scrounging around for for anything that is new and exciting and tickles our eyes and ears. We want to know how to "Live Our Best Life Now," how to be healthy, wealthy, and prosperous and still make it to Heaven. I hate to burst your little bubble, but that is not biblical Christianity. That is not the Christianity that the early believers gave their lives for, that the reformers died for. In fact, the word that is preached from many pulpits today is