[Faith-talk] blind sence child birth.

[Sheila Leigland]

that is a thought vrovoking post and this subject was mentioned to me at 
a memorial service that was being held for a friend. The person wanted 
to know why those of us who call ourselves christians look down on other 
folks that are perceived as different. I told her that christians 
shouldn't do that and as a christian I try to live that but it made me 
sad to here how we as believers are seen not just by disagreements in 
beliefs but in the love we show or don't show to those around us.
On 9/3/2013 10:35 PM, Debby Phillips wrote:
> Okay Andrew, this is the other reason I'm not thrilled with churches.  
> We all sit around and judge each other and where does that get us? You 
> know why non-Christians think we are phony? I'll tell you, and this is 
> after talking to a lot of them lately. They don't like us because we 
> seem to be arrogant.  They don't like us because we seem to have so 
> many disagreements about "what is right" to believe.  They don't like 
> us because we act like we are holier than they are, but are 
> hypocritical.  Plain and simple, they don't like us because they don't 
> see the love of Jesus in us.  What drew you to Christ in the first 
> place? Was it "the perfect right doctrine" or was it because someone 
> told you about how much Christ loved you that He was willing to die a 
> terrible death for your sins.  In the early Church, people were drawn 
> because they saw that Jesus made a difference in people's lives. 
> People were healed, the church fed the hungry and poor, and the 
> non-believers said, "See how they love one another".  But it wasn't 
> love that was cliquish.  The people were loving of everybody who 
> came.  Now in many churches you have groups of people who are just 
> little cliques and they don't want to include anybody else, anybody 
> new.  Sorry, I don't want to offend anyone, but I'm being as honest as 
> I know how to be.  If Jesus isn't making a difference in our lives, 
> what do we have to share with anybody? And now, I speak to myself as 
> well as you all.  How is it that we go along day by day and people 
> aren't drawn to the Lord by us? Because most of us don't really love 
> Him, (Jesus) and we don't love each other either.  We need to be so in 
> love with Jesus that His love overflows from us to other people.  We 
> need to be so steeped in His Word and in walking with Him that people 
> will know that we are different.  I'm certainly not where I want to be 
> in all of this.  I don't know that I will ever reach that point.  But 
> I know a genuine Christian when I see one, and I wouldn't want to 
> embarrass him in any way, but our own Tom Anderson is such.  He loves 
> the Lord and it shows in the way he treats people.  Yet he isn't so 
> removed from folks that lots of people can relate to him and love 
> him.  I have seen people drawn to the Lord because of him, heard 
> students ask questions about Jesus because of Tom's genuineness.  But 
> he doesn't sit in judgement of people.  We will never win people to 
> Christ by telling them how bad they are and condemning them.  We will 
> only win people to Christ if we can show them that we too are sinners 
> saved by grace.  Well, I didn't mean this to be so long.  Sorry about 
> that.    Blessings,    Debby
>
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