Re: Following Jesus - sayings and aphorisms by Kierkegaard

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.