Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Love Is Enough

I struggle with understanding that people who are caught up in some kind of ‘sin’ aren’t in need of love. When we 'ALL' are sinful... Love that our Father gives us freely every day of our life. Though why do we allow sin to be such a big thing that prevents us from really and truly loving those who need it the most? I see Jesus doing that with all the people he used to hang out with back in the day. He knew they were in sin, but yet that didn’t stop him from loving them and hanging out with them. I think there are a lot of Christians that give sin and the evil one too much credit, too much attention, that they can’t even see life and love, but hate and evil. They are blind, blind by their own self-righteousness. I’ve been there before, and it sucks…There’s no life in that, just dirt roads that lead to nowhere. I look at people who are gay. Just because they are living that kind of life style, doesn’t mean I can’t love them and cherish them. I was reading an article about Jennifer Knapp, who was a popular Christian artist back when I was growing up and who just came out and told the world that she is now gay. Christianity Today was holding the interview with her and they were questioning her up and down, to no end, and what did that produce? Absolutely nothing good in my book! If I had a chance to talk to Jennifer, I would say this; You’re loved by a Father who cherishes you, and I love you too just as you are…

These are prime examples of what many are stuck on. They can’t see beyond sin, and all that they find is that people who are different from them are the problem, when just maybe the problem lies with them the whole time. Yeah, Christianity as a religion and what it produces, to me is a problem. It defiles the message and who God says he is, and never leaves room for grace. My prayer is that those who need love will get it, and people who are stuck in a rut of religion will never stand a chance to do any more damage than what they have already done.

I just want the truth of God to be known through the love he has given us to share, nothing less, and nothing more.

“I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be, because you will never be as you should be.” --Brennan Manning



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry, but I stand amazed at how you and others who think as you wrote in your blog cry out for others to love those who are caught in the web of their sin - (ie. Jennifer Knapp - And I, too, agree with you that she is to be loved, but the Word of God says she is to be assisted in repenting from that which in God's Word is a clearly stated sin. Who of us haven't sinned, but true love will work at helping one to escape from that whose only wage is "death". (Rom.6:23; James 1:15)yet you turn the same harshness and judgment you abhor on those whose fault (sin) is that of not responding to her and her need as they should. The inconsistency and seemingly double standard (some might even view it as hypocrisy - though I am sure that you truly do not mean to do such a thing) of this is something you really need to carefully examine. If no stones are to be thrown, then NO stones are to be thrown.

Selah! Stop and think about it!

Unknown said...

I don't know who you are, but I do know one thing and that is it doesn't seem like you really understand the true meaning of grace. You accept it when its preached, but you deny it in practice. It's not my 'job' to make sure Jeniffer Knapp 'repents' or yours for that matter. It's to simply love her regardless of her sin. You can go ahead and try to change her and see how far you get...

You have made a good point that I may sound harsh to those like you. Though Jesus wasn't walking on egg shells and wasn't too overly friendly to the pharisee's back in the day was he? There was a reason why he acted the way he did towards them, and people such as yourself may want to stop and think about that...

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