Hmm... He might be right, but I always thought of a hypocrite as more of someone whose PATTERN of life is saying one thing yet doing another. If your pattern is to whole-heartedly follow Christ, and you stumble, that's simply being the imperfect beings that we are. Maybe that's hypocrisy and maybe not... I don't know. What I do know is that we all fail in being perfect as He is, but that's part of the point - we can't do it on our own. We need the salvation that He gives us freely out of the love He has for us, and our pattern of actions and the way we live (however imperfectly) should reflect that love.
 

Methinks "saying" something and "attempting" something ain't the same thing. Failing at an attempt is not the same as saying one thing and doing another...or else I'm just a literal minded jerk. Wait, I am a literal minded jerk. Anywho, I get his point, but I kinda think his statement sounds pretty but makes little sense.


I also don't think the moral standard of Christ is available for lowering. I'm pretty sure that's a read only document_
 

agreed. i posted this out of context. it's an embrace of it not a rejection.

prob should have sent the whole tamale-

"Christians must be hypocrites.

I just heard a radio ad for "Highland Park Church". I have never heard of this church, but they are apparently a church that meets in west Nashville.

The ad was typical. "Come to our church because we are different. We are real people, just like you. We're casual, low pressure," etc.

These ads are troublesome in part because they tend to feed negative stereotypes about the Church. We are stuffy, high pressure, and not "real," unlike the cool guys at this one church. These ads bash the rest of the Church in the hopes of drawing someone who already agrees with them.

The part that angered me, though, was "are you tired of hypocrites? So are we."

OK, here's the deal. A hypocrite is someone who says one thing and does another. Every person who attempts to follow Christ, a God whose moral standard is nothing short of perfection, must be a hypocrite. The only way to be a Christian and not a hypocrite is to lower the moral standard of Christ.

I don't know this church. I assume they are good people who just want to reach the lost. But this is not the way to do it. It can only lead people to have unrealistic expectations. "


i can always count on you to bust me, in music, sonics and now text. sheeeeeez