How Christian Are We?

"If a Christian is having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!" Leonard Ravenhill. Mr. Ravenhill also says, "The world is not looking for a new definition of Christianity -- it's looking for a new demonstration of Christianity." I suppose the words that really hit home for me here are tribulation, and definition. Every year at the start of the year I pray asking for a word. I suppose it would be like a new years resolution...I will do better, I will do things different. Yet I pray for words--not resolutions. These two words have, for me, are pregnant with meaning that has convicted me, and opened my eyes to a new view point of what Christ wants from me.
I heard once, "how is it that the world couldn't get along with the holiest man that ever lived but it can get along with you and men." Is there a problem here? I believe so. Just think about it for a second. How is it that world had to crucify the holiest, most righteous man in in the world, yet it can live with us 'Christians' who are supposed to seek to be like Christ? Are 'Christians' compromised to the ways of the world? Yes. Statistics show that Christianity is a dying breed. In the late 1700's 1 in every 49 people were professing Christians. By 1994 only 1 in every 10 people, in North America, are proffesing believers. Yet statistics also show that 95% of professing believers don't live a Christian life -- alcohol, drugs, sex, pornography, cussing, lying, etc. is all part of everyday life. Therefore, how can the world look upon Christians like they looked upon Christ if so many 'Christians' are living a worldly lifestyle?
What a true, Christ-follow man needs to do now is not just give the world a defenition of what a Christian should be, but give a demonstration. Paul Washer says "Salvation is faith and faith alone in Jesus Christ. And faith is preceded and followed by repentance. A growing in holiness. A desire -- not to be like the world, not be like Britney Spears, and not to be like the great majority of American Christianity, but to be like Jesus Christ." Salvation, true, Godly salvation is a desire to be like Christ. It's not a definition to give to the world but a 'demonstration'. People will look at us and see that we are different.
God gave me these two words -- tribulation, and definition. God has been dealing with me lately to change my life, not to fit in with the worlds view, but with Gods. And to give a new demonstration of what a Christian should be.