I've just cherry-picked this Kierkegaard quote from my South African brother Tom Smith's post In so many ways (literally) I’m not a Christ follower …but. Read Tom's entire post when you have a moment, but this quote is an absolute killer:
When we see someone holding an axe wrong and chopping in such a way that he hits everything but the block of firewood, we do not say, “What a wrong way for the woodcutter to go about it,” but we say, “That man is not a woodcutter.” Now for the application. When we see thousands and thousands and millions of Christians whose lives do not resemble in the remotest way what – and this is decisive – the New Testament calls a Christian. Is it not tampering with the meaning to talk as one does in no other situation and say: “what a mediocre way, what a thoroughly inexpressive way these Christians have.” In any other situation would one not say, “These people are not Christians.” Now be earnest about it and say: We are not Christians. Let this become ordinary language usage and you will have a world-transformation.“
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