It really makes me sad that people can walk outside and see creation and not believe in the Creator. It makes me sad that people sit in science and anatomy classes and put their faith in that, but not in the Creator. It makes me sad that people who read the Bible cannot believe in it.
But it also makes me sad that there are people out there who do believe in the Creator, and they are the reason that people turn away from the faith. They judge, they say horrible things, they are hypocrites. Where is the love? We preach on showing love to others all the time, but we never show it. We live a double standard for ourselves. If someone looks at the church body and is turned away because of the hate and the criticism and judgement, then we need to reevaluate the way we live. We think that seeing someone in sin makes them less than us, but we were redeemed from that very sin by someone who gave his life for us, yet we are better than them? 1 John 4:7-8 says, "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love." This doesn't mean to just love the believers, or love the people who are similar to us. This means love the people who don't believe, the people who are very different from us, the sinners. We have been saved by GRACE and not by our own doing, so we should rejoice in this and be unashamed to tell others. To tell unbelievers. And really, how different are they? They need Jesus too, just like you and I do.
