A Fad?

Today I read the 3 chapter of Matthew. Again I read from "The Message".
People poured out of Jerusalem, Judea, and the Jordanian countryside to hear and see him (John the Baptizer) in action. There at the Jordan River those who came to confess their sins were baptized into a changed life. When John realized that a lot of Pharisees and Sadducces were showing up for a baptismal experience because it was becoming the popular thing to do, he exploded: "Brood of snakes! What do you think you're doing slithering down here to the river? Do you think a little water on your snakeskins is going to make any difference? It's your life that must change, not your skin! And don't think you can pull rank by claiming Abraham as father. Being a descendant of Abraham is neither here nor there. Descendants of Abraham are a dime a dozen. What counts is your life. Is it green and blossoming? Because if it's deadwood, it goes on the fire. I'm baptizing you here in the river, turning your old life in for a kingdom life. The real action comes next: the main character in this drama --compared to him I'm a mere stagehand -- will ignite the kingdom life within you, a fire within you, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out. He's going to clean house --make a clean sweep of your lives. He'll place everything true in its proper place before God; everything false he'll put out with the trash to be burned.
WOW! Not a new story but Peterson brings it to life for me. What if we put the word Christian in place of Pharisees or Sadducces? How many of us go along with the fad of being a Christian without changing our lives, changing for a kingdom life? Christians are a dime a dozen. Is your life green and blossoming or deadwood or just driftwood? I confess that my life was more driftwood until recently when my life changed to a kingdom life. Where are you?