"I don't believe in God, because Christians are hypocrites!"
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
...hypocrisy is a function of humanity, not religion. You deal with hypocrites at the grocery store, at the filling station, on the job, at school and at the golf course (maybe more there than anywhere else).
You do not quit buying groceries because the grocer says one thing and does another.
but the person who says, "I'm not going to be a Christian! I'm not going to serve God! I'm not going to get involved in the work of the Church because there are hypocrites in the Church," is just logically inconsistent!You do not quit your job because your employers tell you to do something that they themselves would not touch with a ten-foot pole.
You do not deprive yourself or your child of a good education because a teacher teaches one thing and lives something else.
You do not quit playing golf because your buddy takes a stroke in the rough and does not count it when he thinks you did not see it.
Sure there is hypocrisy in the Church, because there are human beings in the Church, and as long as you deal with human beings, you are going to deal with hypocrisy.
Do you want to get away from hypocrisy? Dig a 20-foot hole in your backyard, jump in, let someone cover you with dirt, and even then you are going to be sitting down there in the bottom of that hole with one hypocrite.
There is not a one of us breathing air that is as consistent as we ought to be, but the person who says, "I'm not going to be a Christian! I'm not going to serve God! I'm not going to get involved in the work of the Church because there are hypocrites in the Church," is just logically inconsistent! We do not use that kind of thinking anywhere else in our lives. How can we do it in our relationship to God?
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You do not quit buying groceries because the grocer says one thing and does another.
but the person who says, "I'm not going to be a Christian! I'm not going to serve God! I'm not going to get involved in the work of the Church because there are hypocrites in the Church," is just logically inconsistent!You do not quit your job because your employers tell you to do something that they themselves would not touch with a ten-foot pole.
You do not deprive yourself or your child of a good education because a teacher teaches one thing and lives something else.
You do not quit playing golf because your buddy takes a stroke in the rough and does not count it when he thinks you did not see it.
Sure there is hypocrisy in the Church, because there are human beings in the Church, and as long as you deal with human beings, you are going to deal with hypocrisy.
Do you want to get away from hypocrisy? Dig a 20-foot hole in your backyard, jump in, let someone cover you with dirt, and even then you are going to be sitting down there in the bottom of that hole with one hypocrite.
There is not a one of us breathing air that is as consistent as we ought to be, but the person who says, "I'm not going to be a Christian! I'm not going to serve God! I'm not going to get involved in the work of the Church because there are hypocrites in the Church," is just logically inconsistent! We do not use that kind of thinking anywhere else in our lives. How can we do it in our relationship to God?
Read the whole story here
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