The Bullet of Fellowship: Look to the Perfect Head not the Imperfect Body
The non-church crowd is ridiculous in their two-faced attacks. (At least those who do criticize, some non-church folks couldn’t care less.) On the one hand, they criticize the church if we let sinners of all breeds in … cursers, drinkers, gossipers, selfish types, immoral, etc. … because we have “hypocrites” in the church then. All healing is not instantaneous. When one “joins” the church he doesn’t immediately leave all his sinful ways behind him. A boy with a broken leg isn’t healed the minute he sees a doctor or a woman with mental problems who sees a psychiatrist.
On the other hand, if the church folks try to keep “sinners” out and let only “the saints” in, they are accused of self-righteous, pious, holier-than-thou religion. All of us detest this.
What’s the answer? Truth! For the church not to welcome sinners is like a surgeon refusing to use his operating table or a lawyer refusing to see people who are in trouble or a hospital limiting its services to the well and healthy.
The church I’m a member of constantly fails to reach its goal. All other churches I know of fail with us. But we do have a goal! Jesus Christ! What’s yours?
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