“If you left the Church to get away from hypocritical people, you should quit your job, drop out of school, disconnect yourself from all your friends and family, lock yourself in your room while you’re at it. There will be flaws wherever there are humans.
We need to start seeing church for what it is: it is a hospital for wounded and hurt people. You will find messed up, , conniving, calculating, imperfect individuals, including yourself. As much as you want to deny it, we all go for healing. So if you felt betrayed by a fellow Church member, put your Nursing cap on, and think of them as your patients. Treat them with care, love and kindness despite their rudeness.” ~ Author unknown
I’ve been on both sides of this sort of thinking. Part of getting old is to recognize, admit flawed thinking that has hurt others in the past, to repent, to make changes and move on. To become stuck instead in the thinking of the first paragraph does no one any good and makes the adversary ‘happy’… in his miserable way. kdm
