I went to a retreat recently (right before the hurricane) and on the car ride back someone asked me what was my biggest pet peeve in a christian community. "Unloving Christians" came into mind. Those 2 words feel like an oxymoron to me. How can a christian be unloving when our belief is centered around God's love for us. It's crazy though how unloving christians can be, those who go around judging everyone as if they were created to be better than others, those who walk around bullying and hurting gays because "its part of our religion" (clearly not biblical btw)...it upsets me so much. I know only christians would go around judging each other on whether their actions are "christian-y" or not but have you ever wondered what a non-christian would think when they find out this person is a christian and yet they go around hurting everyone and doing all these things. We are called to be ambassadors of Christ and everything we do, they would take it as "so this what Jesus lovers are, if thats the case I must be better than God since I'm so much nicer/better than them" ONLY christians would give each other the benefit of the doubt and say we aren't created perfect, God still loves you and is waiting for you to repent. Non-christians would only be pushed further away.
1 John 4:8 says "whoever does not love, does not know God because God is love."
God also calls us to not only love him but love our neighbors the way he loves us.
Christians aren't perfect and we will always mess up here and there but we need to be willing to acknowledge our wrongs and repent. We may never become exactly like Jesus Christ but we need to strive to live in his image. For the sake of shining light to our darkened world, for the sake of God's broken heart seeing us like this, for the sake of others, for the sake of what Jesus has done, can't we all just try and love?
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