Two months ago, I met with a student from a reputable Christian university and this was the statement that he said to me, “Chad, it is so hard to be a Christian here, everyone walks around with a mask saying everything in their life is perfect, we go to chapel three times a week, and it is so easy to walk around hiding the things that are really going on in our lives.”
When I heard that statement, my spirit grieved. I went away from the conversation and I prayed for a chance to speak at that school. Two months later The World Race had a booth on campus and I was given two opportunities to speak to the students.
As I stood in front of the class, I almost had tears in my eyes because of the evident answered prayer. I was speaking on Luke 18 and Luke 10, how missions and prayer are two sides of the same coin.
When I began preaching, I told the students about the conversation that I had with one of their fellow classmates. I prefaced it by saying that I knew the statement had only come from one person, but I still wanted to address it.
I have realized that one of my life passions is to come against the spirit of Religion. In the Bible, Jesus went after the spirit of religion the most. He came hard against the Pharisees and Sadducees who were stuck in rules, regulations and ritual. He loved the Pharisee and Sadducee but he hated the religion that entrapped them.
What religion does is it throws us into a spiral of works, rules and ritual. There are positives to these if done in the right heart but religion seeks to destroy that. Jesus said to the Laodicean church, “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth.” Revelations 3:15-17.
Lukewarm is what religion does to us. It brings us right in the middle where Jesus says he doesn’t want us to be. Lukewarm Christianity is exactly where the devil would like us because he doesn’t have to do anything to us, we are already paralyzed in our own religion. We walk around in easy Christian living and ritual not affecting the world for the Kingdom of Christ. That is exactly what Jesus did not want us to do.
My challenge to the students, was to realize who they were in their Father and what they were being called to as sons and daughters of the most high King. My challenge was to break the normal Christian life that the world has placed on us and become the warriors and princess warriors that the bible has called us to. 
My call was for a generation to believe who they are and to rip apart any religion that is trying to take them down. It is time to step up and to realize who we are in Christ and give him all the glory.
Will our generation believe what the WORD says?
