Mahatma Gandhi once was asked his opinion of Christianity. "I like your Christ," Gandhi replied, "but I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
Gandhi, of course, lived under decades of British colonial imperialism, hardly the most Christ-like of undertakings. But Gandhi had experience of the world--and Christians--far wider than colonial India, and the fact was that too often the lives of those who professed Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior didn't look much like the life Jesus taught and modeled.
The same can be said, of course, of adherents to other religions, people whose lives bear little resemblance to the teachings they profess. But whether or not what Gandhi said of Christians is true of non-Christians really isn't the point. The point is that what Gandhi said of Christians is true. We do tend to talk the proverbial talk better than we walk the walk. And we who do profess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior have some responsibility, I think, to reflect on that.
So, here's the log in question: does my life reflect my faith?
