Sentimentality/Spirituality

Today we have a syrupy type of Christianity. We have become so sweet we’re sickening. We have substituted sentimentality for spirituality. Trying to pass off the former as being the latter. Oswald Chambers mentions this in one of his books, saying we have replaced the God-Man with Brother-man, turning spirituality into sentimentality.

Some descriptive words the dictionary associates with sentimental are: romantic, emotional, slushy, impressionable, and gushy. One definition is, “Resulting from or colored by emotion rather than reason or realism.” You always find this type of person with the “Bleeding Heart” crowd. Their feelings take precedent over the scriptures, every time. “I think,” is their standard terminology. “Thus saith the Lord,” is not a part of their vocabulary.

The greatest need of our day is getting back to a raw, rugged, Christianity. Tough love, if you please. Principled saints who are willing to be seen as harsh. People who hold to the same teaching as the Army instructor who told would-be medics attending the wounded on the battle field, “If you’re not willing to hurt them, you can’t help them (Prov.27:6, b). I have observed in a ministry that spans over half a century that the men and women who are most compassionate are those with the strongest convictions! Those like their Lord.