Why Americans Don't Accept Jesus

I had a discussion with my mother on the way home from church today about a couple of my close friends who I am trying to introduce to Christianity. One of those is Hindu, the other of which was raised in a home where he is to remain theologically neutral until his eighteenth birthday. My original question to my mom was if God would allow good people in heaven, even if they were of other religions. She quoted the verse about how Jesus is THE WAY, and that no one gets to The Father but through Him. Even so, I've continually been trying to evangelize simply for the fact that they need saving just like everyone else.

Evangelism has been especially difficult with the second of these friends. He has a harder time accepting what I'm presenting because he's never been given the choice to accept for himself. Because of his upbringing, the need for an almighty God is absent from his life, and he sees no practicality in "worrying about it".

This has sparked my interest in the minds of Americans and why we have a hard time accepting Jesus as Saviour. I'm beginning to understand this by observation of the middle/upper class American state of mind.

You don't need to be provided for if you can easily conjure up anything you need with a snap of your fingers.

You don't need rescue from suffering when you've led a life of luxury.

We lounge and put our feet up in our fancy chairs at our holiday homes while sunbathing with our Oakleys to protect our eyes from the very sun that shines over the heads of the underpriveleged, orphaned, oblivious, and poor.

We, as Americans, proudly declare ourselves as "on top".

And we are.

It is easy for those who need to be provided for to need a provider, and it's easy for those who suffer to need a rescuer.

We, my friends, need a divine intervention in our lives just as much as they do.

We need to get off our independent, self-sufficient high horses.

We need Jesus.


"Do you have any idea how difficult it is for people who 'have it all' to enter God's kingdom? You can't imagine how difficult. I'd say it's easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than or the rich to get into God's kingdom." (Mark 10:23-25 MSG)