City North Church. I am Sorry.

I don't like Sunday Christians. What is a "Sunday Christian," I hear you yell from your iPhone? It's a person who looks and acts like a Christian when they go to church, but it all stops there. They basically go home, and life carries on without any thought to what Jesus wants from them.

It's a bit fake. I don't like it, and here's why: When you follow Jesus, it's an all-of-life sort of thing. It's not a one-hour-a-week thing. You don't "put on the faith" like you put on a show and then turn it off every other day. Your "Sunday best" is meant to be worn every other day too. And it's more than just a political stance. Just because you like Christian values and want our world to return to the good old days of "Christendom" doesn't mean you advocate for "right-wing values" in the public space and have your own set of values for when you're at home. That's what Sunday Christians do.

Now, here's where it gets a little awkward: to be honest, I'm actually worried that if there are Sunday Christians floating around my church, it might actually be my fault! Yep. I reckon it might be on me, so this is a bit of a public apology. Look, I'm not talking about my own life from Monday to Saturday (how dare you question my perfect, authentic faith). I'm talking about my preaching. I preach and am in charge of the preaching program of our church, and it's possible—well, now I think about it, almost inevitable—that one reason we've stopped living for Jesus every day is because I haven't encouraged us to. I haven't preached it, taught it, Bible studied it, celebrated it, rebuked it. You know what I mean?

We live our lives in our homes, and we live our faith in our homes too. That's authentic faith, and I reckon our society is craving authenticity (which is partly why I haven't used ChatGPT to write this article, even though Gemini is spell-correcting as we go). It's 2026, and we're longing for the "real" and the "authentic." And when you become a Christian, God asks you to live for him authentically too. In fact, our God is the God of authenticity.

So here's my public apology: I am sorry. City North Church, forgive me!

And here's what I'm going to do about it. Starting Sunday, July 26, we're devoting a whole sermon series to living our faith out in our homes. I'm calling it Faith at Home or A Home with Faith or something like that.

And I will be praying that our homes—whether they've got kids, or divorcees, or widowers, or just you and a laptop in them—will be homes that have authentic, all-of-life Christians in them. Oh, and here's a painting my inauthentic Ai made for this article. I've called it 'Not-Living Room'