Sunday morning, you believe.

Monday through Saturday, you negotiate.

And you think God doesn't notice.

I'm going to say something that might sting. Not to condemn you. Because I lived this. For years.

Most Christian men have a lukewarm faith.

They believe the right things. They go to church. They pray before meals. They can quote a few verses.

But their Monday looks exactly like the Monday of the man who doesn't believe at all.

Same anxiety. Same compromises. Same priorities. Same patterns.

The faith lives in a box labeled "Sunday." The rest of the week runs on autopilot.

Here's the problem with lukewarm faith:

It costs you nothing. And it gives you nothing.

A faith that doesn't change how you live on a Tuesday isn't a faith. It's a label.

A relationship with God that only shows up on Sunday morning isn't a relationship. It's an appointment.

And an appointment you keep once a week with the Creator of the universe is not what you were called to.

I know this because I lived it.

I called myself a Christian. I believed the core truths. I went to church.

But my life didn't look any different because of it.

I still worried like a man with no God.

I still chased approval like a man with no identity.

I still white-knuckled my way through life like a man with no power source.

I had the label without the transformation. The title without the lifestyle.

And here's the worst part—I thought that was normal. Because everyone around me was doing the same thing.

Revelation 3:16.

"Because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."

That's God's opinion on half-in faith.

Not anger. Not hatred. Disgust.

Because lukewarm is an insult to what He offered.

He didn't send His Son so you could believe on Sunday and live like hell on Monday.

He didn't give you a new identity so you could keep living out of the old one.

He didn't call you to more so you could settle for the same.

Lukewarm is the only temperature God said He'd spit out.

Think about that.

Here's what all-in faith looks like. And it's not what most people think.

It's not being preachy. Not being religious. Not performing holiness.

It's letting your faith actually inform your decisions. Every day.

How you treat your wife—informed by faith, not mood.

How you handle money—informed by stewardship, not impulse.

How you spend your time—informed by purpose, not comfort.

How you respond to failure—informed by grace, not shame.

All-in faith is integrated faith. Faith that doesn't live in a Sunday box but runs through everything.

I'm not writing this as a man who has it figured out.

I'm writing this as a man who wasted years on a version of faith that cost me nothing and changed me even less.

The day my faith moved from Sunday to Monday was the day everything shifted.

Not because God changed. Because I finally showed up for the relationship.

God doesn't want your Sunday.

He wants your Monday through Saturday.

He wants the version of you that actually lives like you believe what you say you believe.

Are you giving Him that?

Done negotiating.

-Joel