Honesty

Honesty is something all Churches praise. But I am afraid most churches don't do. Not that they lie to you, they just don't tell the whole truth. They tell you what is good and bad, what is wrong and right. They do their best to be correct. Try their best to lead in a way that glorifies God. What they don't do is tell the whole truth. And that truth is this:

WITH ALL THE RULES AND IDEALS WE PREACH, WE FAIL THEM DAILY.

Thats right, we want to do good. We really do. But we fail. EVERY DAY. The Church tends not to mention this. We call ourselves sinners. We admit we aren't perfect. We mainly do this at the time of original repentance. We are sinners and we ask Jesus to forgive us. He does. And then you are born again. Cleansed of yours sins and forgiven. Thats past, present, and future sins.

In other words, you continue to sin. The difference is you become convicted of those Sins. You begin to see the consequences of sin. You no longer want to commit these sins for what it does to others. Others become more important than yourself.

But that is off the point.

What we do is act like we have become perfect because we have found Jesus. And to him, we are. But here on earth, we continue to sin. This is where we make our mistake with honesty. We try and show others what their sins are, and why they should stop committing them. And this is a good thing. The bad thing is that we forget to mention that we can't even follow our own rules. That we try and fail. Try and fail. So it comes across as condemning, or judging. Don't get me wrong, some are definitely judging, but I don't think most do. I think most just make a sad error.

What we have to begin doing is saying to everyone, we know you are making these mistakes. We know they are causing you harm whether you know it or not. We know this because we have made and are making similiar mistakes. We don't love you in spite of your sins, we love you cause you are just like us. No better, no worse. We are all alike. So if a Church says you are doing something you shouldn't. They may be right, they may be wrong. Just remember, they do it out of love. They do it for the same reason a parent tells their child not to put their hand in the fire. Because it will hurt them, and that is the last thing they want.