They're Christians that make you proud, and then there are people who identify as Christian that make

you cringe and wish nobody ever knew who they were. But what exactly makes someone a bad Christian?

On the one hand, everyone, including me, is a bad Christian when we sin and fail to imitate Jesus Christ.

But today I'm going to describe four types of Christians whose most extreme members cause great harm to the body of Christ.

And to do that, I'm going to adapt Wayne Britton's 2001 political compass, which sorted political views based on your views on economics and authoritarianism.

When it comes to Christians, the compass will focus on two issues.

First, there's the spectrum between Christians who try hard to fit into the culture will focus on two issues. First, there's the spectrum between Christians

who try hard to fit into the culture and the Christians who rebel against everything that's popular.

Second, there's the spectrum between Christians who are overly rigorous and those who are morally

lax. So I'm not going to focus on theological issues like heresy, which certainly makes one a

bad Christian, but on these more

common errors. So let's look at the first kind of bad Christian, someone who conforms to what

the world wants and is morally lax. This is your classic cafeteria Christian. They pick and choose

doctrines based on what makes them feel comfortable and doesn't offend non-Christians.

As my inner Jeff Foxworthy would say, you might be a cafeteria Christian if the only Bible

verse you know is Matthew 7-1, Judge Not. And you think Jesus was just a first century hippie

who preached peace and love. One example of cafeteria Christians would be popular celebrities, people like Chip and Joanna Gaines,

who in spite of attending an evangelical denomination, featured a same-sex couple on their TV show

and blasted Christians who criticized them as, quote, judging first and understanding never.

And here's the two men they picked saying why they were happy to be on their show.

It was this great, amazing opportunity to normalize same-sex couples and same-sex families.

I was on board with the whole concept of continue to normalize same-sex families.

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