Comfort has become the modern Christian’s golden calf. We chase ease, security, and convenience with reckless abandon, and in doing so, we have smothered the very fire of our calling. The Gospel was never meant to be comfortable—it was meant to be costly. Yet too many believers measure their obedience by how painless it feels, forgetting that Jesus said, “Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me” (Matthew 10:38). When we prioritize comfort over calling, we reduce discipleship to a lifestyle brand rather than a radical surrender to the King of Kings. This obsession with comfort is utterly unbiblical. Nowhere in Scripture are God’s people promised safety, ease, or luxury. Instead, we are promised persecution, hardship, and trials as the refining tools of holiness. The early Church understood this, thriving under the weight of suffering and opposition because they knew their mission was more important than their convenience. Today, however, we’ve replaced sacrifice with self-preservation. We avoid hard conversations, hide our faith to stay liked, and decline God’s assignments because they interfere with our schedules or comfort zones. That is not Christianity—it is cowardice dressed in religious clothing. The harm is catastrophic. A Church addicted to comfort cannot stand against the storms of culture, cannot fight the battles of spiritual warfare, and cannot fulfill the Great Commission. Comfort numbs conviction, silences boldness, and renders the Church irrelevant to a world drowning in sin. Instead of shaping culture, we are being shaped by it, all because we’ve chosen the couch over the cross. Satan doesn’t have to destroy us if he can simply lull us to sleep with ease. The time has come to repent, to crucify our addiction to comfort, and to reclaim the dangerous, demanding, and divine calling God has placed on our lives. Christ didn’t die to make us comfortable—He died to make us courageous. | 
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