It’s been an interesting week since Tuesday. My weekend was rough, and I can’t wait to go home for Thanksgiving. I was hoping to go home this coming weekend, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. I thought I might be able to ride with the CofC club swim team to Elon and get home from there, but there is no room open in their van for me to ride. I really feel like I need to go home this weekend, but on the other hand, I have so much work to do it is probably for the best I stay in Charleston.
Wednesday and Thursday were truly interesting. These men came on campus with signs telling everyone to turn from their evil ways, turn to Jesus or face eternal condemnation. It truly wasn’t the appropriate way to spread the Gospel, and it absolutely turned more people off than sincerely attracting people to Christ. In fact, the show on Thursday was DISGUSTING. A man stood on a bench, wore a sign, and pointed his fingers and condemned everyone. He implied that a true Christian will never sin again after accepting Jesus, and he even told me that John 3:16 states, “For God so loved the world that He sent his one and only Son, that whosoever does not believe in Me is eternally condemned to hell.” This just tore me up! I yelled at him, telling him that is not what my bible said, and he accused me of having a mormon bible. I can assure you, if I were not a Christian, this man would have turned me off to God. These men also boasted signs of WHO God hates. This is what people remember from these men: who God hates.
The thing is, my God doesn’t hate anyone. He may hate the sin in our lives, but Jesus instructed us to love our neighbor. In fact, Jesus hung out with the prostitutes. He showed them compassion, grace and love. Never did He stand above them, condemning them to hell. I guess the worst thing of all in this was that you could see people walking away and saying, “THAT is why I don’t believe in God. Because if THAT is Christianity, standing on a bench, yelling and condemning, and a God of hatred, I don’t want that.”
God save our generation, and may all know the true love of God.
Be Well,
Lauren
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November 11, 2008 at 3:52 pm
andira
Wow, Babe…that is so disheartening about those men. For shame that they would twist the word and heart of God to condemn people like that. It is no wonder that the world looks on the Church with confused or misinformed eyes.
We’ll keep working for the Kingdom, though!!! And I’m looking forwards to having you back around!