The Small Things

Why do people focus so much on what denomination people are? Our goal in life is not to "convert" everyone to Baptist or Lutheran, etc. During FCA today, one of the students continued to ask everyone what religion they are. Of course they all immediately say Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, etc. Which is exactly what she wanted to know. I explained that is called a denomination, your religion is Christianity, believing in Christ, which those denominations do. And like normal Jr. High students, they could care less what I was saying :) She was so focused on people "converting" between denominations, and her converting from Baptist to Catholic, "you know I have church on Wednesday called CCE, and we learn about Cat-a-lism and we do that cross thing with our hands" yes she did say that! She has no clue what she is "converting" to or why. She had no clue, one of the students was saying she was Mormon. This is the real reason we are there, here we have her there, singing praise and worship songs, and as Christians they were so focused on what denominations or "religion" they were or "converting" to, they missed an opportunity to share with this student. So as I write this, I begin to think, yes, I know they are Jr. High kids, but as Christians (I know I do) we get caught up in the small things, that we miss the big or obvious opportunities God gives us.