Church and Hypocrisy - yes I'm a hypocrite, and so are you.

I think one of the reasons the world around us has a problem with the church, we are all human, we are all born with a sin nature, the difference between Christianity and those who don’t believe in Christianity is the fact that we understand what Jesus did for us and how we should be living. We understand what a perfect life looks like, we feel like we understand what holiness and spirituality should be, but because we are sinful humans, even though we know we should change certain things in our lives, we are rebellious by nature and we still do the stupid things. And because the people on the outside of the church are looking in at Christianity thinking that we are supposed to be better than them, they look at us as more hypocritical than they are because we know a truth and we are supposed to be showing them how to live separate from the world. But we are still doing things just as the world does. The sinful nature of humanity doesn’t change because of the way we believe, but we do or should practice daily how to fight against our sinful nature‘s and live better than we have been.

Do you always act like what you believe is true? Of course you don’t. Nobody can 100% act as though they believe a certain way. Nobody attaches 100% of their life to a certain way of living. There’s always an exception. We want to think that we can, we want to believe that we do, but none of us do. And none of us can. But that doesn’t mean we stop trying.