"Little Christian-boy"

There are people who take and don’t give. We meet them almost everytime. Those are people who use their advantages against other people, use their relatives to achieve their goals, or simply don’t help, when everybody works hard. They rather sit in the corner and wait until the work is done and then they start to use the products. How can we call those people?

My dad was always good at speaking less, but able to say his negative feelings in a few words, when he had hard times. One of the cases was his brother, who fit to higher showed definition. My father went angry at that time, however, with cool easy look he said about him: „He is such a little Christian-boy.“

He used the word a little Christian-boy, because he knew about his angriness and prejudices about the christianity and he imagined some Christians as people who take, but don’t give. We won’t discuss, whether it was right to call his brother such a word, or whether we could speak about us like he did – for us, the important thing is a word “Little Christian-boy“.

I am glad, that we can have such a beautiful idiom, because we can find the whole group of those little Christian-boys, sadly, even belong us, servans of Christ.  We are not comfortable with people who say those things, but think: Are they right? Did anyone of us take without giving?

It is not about giving and recieving love. We are counted in everything God prepared for us. In our role in his great plan. One of my friends once told me: “When Jesus returned to the Father, he commanded to his disciples to spread his word. He has such intentions with us, too. People won’t know God if nobody tells them. We cannot just sit and wait until something happens. God counts with us, he has no plan B.“

I also acted as a little Christian-boy. Not only once happened that there was some work to do at home, everybody was busy, except me sitting on the armchair and enjoying the comfort of doing nothing. I am ashamed now, but when I think about it, lots of us avoid “job“. It is not just about sharing the gospel, but about every service for God, which we sometimes don’t want to do, becuase we are too lasy or ashamed.

Another friend of mine, who heard this idiom told me: “I imagine a little Christian-boy as a man who lives with his Sunday service and does not care about anything else.“

These all were examples of behaviour, which we could briefly call “little Christian-boy.“ I dare you to think: Are we similiar with anything of this? Do we want to change this? Will we take Christ’s cross and will be search for our faults?

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.“

Romans 12:1-2