Christians??

I was listening to Total Axxess (a Christian radio show) tonight and they were talking about what people think of when they hear the word Christians… most said good things, but one said hypocrites and judgmental.  Then they talked about a book, where they did a study for three months with non-Christians and put them into churches, and they responded saying that it’s not God or God’s word they had a problem with, but the “messengers” who were rude, judgmental, and hypocrites.

I think this happens a lot in Christianity… it’s becoming a religion with all these man-made rules and practices.  It’s not all supposed to be one way to worship, each individual has a right to worship God in their own individual way.  This “religion” is looking like a religion and veering from the path of faith, worship, love, and Godliness… it’s turning into what the Pharisees were when Jesus was here… creating all these rules to the rules of God.

I think we need to become Christ-followers, and stop following a religion, and start following Christ, and stop getting in the way of His message and Word and start helping Him get to those who are sick… remember, He came to heal the sick, those who had never heard the news, and for the entire world, not just “His people.”  So instead of becoming a Pharisee, become one like Jesus, we need to accept everyone, and as individuals, and make it known that you have love and God, in your heart.  We need to be humble, we’re all imperfect and we need to love, because no human made in God’s image (and that’s everyone) can have a full life without love; and that love that God gives us.

~ by djdave on March 13, 2008.