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I was raised in a nominally Catholic home. I embraced the title or the name Roman Catholic

and I was baptized in the Catholic Church. But faith in God actually didn't really mean anything

for me until I was in high school. There are many people who are raised with the

trappings of Christianity or religion who really don't take the faith to heart. People who say,

oh yeah, I'm a Christian and maybe even go to church on a weekly basis, but who nevertheless

are nothing more than cultural Christians. Now, in society, there are benefits to cultural Christianity, but when it comes to your

personal life and what God calls each person too, cultural Christianity can actually be a great

stumbling block. It can be a way of being deceived into thinking you're a Christian when in reality

you're a pagan with an impotent knowledge of Christianity.

And maybe some Jesus ritual sprinkled in.

How do you know if you're a cultural Christian and what should you do about it if you are?

Why is this so important for you personally? You know, Jesus said that on the day of judgment there would be many people, religious people,

who had confessed the right things about God, but who nevertheless had no relationship with him.

Consider what he said in Matthew chapter 7, verses 21 through 23.

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