Rosie O'Donnell states radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam.

On the View in September Rosie states that radical Christianity is just as threatening to America as radical Islam.

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Unbelievable.

My first responses to this are: shock and then anger.
How could she say that? Are Christians beheading people weekly? Are Christians flying planes into buildings? Are Christians blowing themselves up at bus stops?

Personally, I believe Rosie is more of a threat to America than Christians.

Then I started to feel guilty for being upset. Yes, what she said was completely off base but has Rosie ever met a radical Christian?
Perhaps, Rosie and I's definition of radical Christianity are different.
She's probably thinking of that lunatic Eric Rudolph who blew up an abortion clinic.
I would say that’s not a radical Christian but a sick and mentally insane person who misrepresents the Christian faith.

Come to think of it, I misrepresent the Christian faith all the time. I get upset at the person who cuts over on me on the freeway. I get upset when my food isn't brought out to me on time. I get upset when people insult or disagree with my beliefs.

Perhaps Rosie has never met a radical Christian. One who is so radical that he or she does not validate their existence on the things and persons around them. They don't have to be served first, or treated the exact way they want to be treated. Instead they love first, forgive first, care first, smile first, and rejoice first.
This is the definition of a radical Christian.
How radical is that? What if more Christians lived out the Gospel in every moment of their daily lives? What if Christians focused on the cross instead of themselves?
Luther once said he felt as if Jesus Christ died only yesterday. I read that and knew I didn’t feel that way consistently. I believe a radical Christian would. A radical Christian would be one who lives a cross centered life. One who continually gains understanding in Christ’s suffering for them, and grows in consistent joy and zeal in the knowledge of that unmerited favor Christ has given them in his death.

A radical Christian is one who is being equipped each day with the fruit of the spirit, which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. Galatians 5:22
A radical Christian becomes these things not for himself but because God became these things for him. And in turn we show this radical life to others by our words and actions and we give testimony to the work of the cross.

Has Rosie met these radical Christians? Has the audience that so thundersly applauded to her comment met these radical Christians?

I know I have faltered in helping change the definition of radical Christian.
How do you live as a radical Christian?

I believe the answer is found in living a cross-centered life rather than a self-centered life. Living the Cross Centered Life.

John Stott once said, "The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us."

God is still working on us, lets pray that we may become more cross-centered, full of love, joy, forgiveness, and compassion and become radical Christians.