I don’t like to make people feel bad. I don’t like for people to feel as if they are unworthy. Having grown up as the school geek, I know what it is like to be the outsider. To be the one pointed at and laughed at. To be the one who doesn’t feel worthy.
For Christians like myself who have read the Bible cover to cover several times, we know what it REALLY says as opposed to what people think it says.
I know Christians who live in fear, shame remorse and guilt simply because another person (who called themselves a Christian) belittled and persecuted them. I have been in a meeting where an assistant leader suggested that members of the Christian group who did not live up to a homework assignment be brought into public and humiliated.
Now I can take any popular book and read a piece here and a piece there and tell you the plot is about evil people who kidnap a woman. When in fact when you read the entire story, you see that it was heroic people who rescued the woman from evil people.
I say all of this only to make a point. Christ died on the cross for you. To bear your guilt and shame. Christ did not condemn others. And at the last supper Christ made it clear we are entering a New Covenant. So where once it was accepted to shame, condemn, persecute and even kill others, Christ laid out a new way. Love God. Love each other.
If you have ever been made to feel unworthy by someone who called themselves a Christian, remember this clip:
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