Christians Suck
Let me start by saying that I love Jesus. I am a Christian…and I’m proud to be a Christian (sort of like I’m proud to be an American…which means I’m glad to be what I am, but I’m often disappointed with the group I’m associated with).
Having said that, there is no group of people that pisses me off more than Christians. You see, with non-Christians I’m more loving and forgiving. I figure, “well, they just don’t know any better than to be an asshole.” But, when it comes to Christians, I feel like we should just know better.
Jesus calls us to love one another, encourage each other, build one another up…to be humble, gentle, patient, kind, and compassionate. And, I know many Christians who are doing their best to live that life out.
But, there are some Christians in my life that are the least loving, encouraging, gentle, patient, kind, compassionate, and humble people I’ve ever met. I sometimes feel like saying to them, “Hey, don’t tell anyone that you’re a Christian because you’re a jerk and I don’t want you to turn them off from this wonderful journey.” And, it’s these people that challenge my ability to be loving, kind, encouraging, gentle, patient, compassionate, humble, etc.
So, how do we go about making significant enough changes in the lives of those that desire to “be like Jesus” to actually have an impact on how they live their lives? We’ve got so many Christians with a lot of head knowlede that seem completely unable or unwilling to put that knowledge into action. I really believe that this world would be a much different place if we Christians took seriously the call to “love God” and “love others.”
That was one MAJOR vent…………you handled the prior post responding to negative people nicely, but something really set you off today.
Comment by concerned — October 21, 2006 @ 2:56 pm
nothing set me off…it’s just observations i’ve made over the years…too often we Christians do a pretty poor job of actually living the life that Jesus told us was possible and do a better job of giving our faith a bad name. and, you just don’t like the word “piss”.
Comment by jasonmorris — October 22, 2006 @ 11:30 am