Maybe it’s just me, but, as a Christian, one of my biggest fears is being called a hypocrite. At times, I try so hard to protect myself from this moniker that it all but consumes me. At other times, knowing that I have sinned has caused me to keep my mouth shut when given opportunities to exhort others to turn from their sins. I think to myself, “if I point them to God’s Word here, I will be a hypocrite for doing the same things!” There is a fine line between motives of helping our brother with the speck in his eye and pridefully failing to see the plank in our own. I have felt burdened to write this since I sat down with a good friend who told me that he has stopped going to church because he got tired of the hypocrisy. The tragedy is that he is just one of countless people who have left churches because Christians don’t seem to measure up to what they are preaching and professing to believe. As a Christian, I have a major problem with this! And you should too! Now, just ...
Reflections on a life lived for King Jesus.