Belief Beyond Believers

Do you really believe the Gospel?

Am I good enough for Jesus? No. Can I be with the accrual of the greatest faith on earth and a life of volunteerism and prayer? No. This is beside the point. We are not Christian because we can be better, but because of truth and love. Ideally becoming better is a great co-product, but this is not where we start. If your faith in Jesus is undermined by people, consider that you might not have faith in Jesus, but in people. No conversion ever happened because someone of a particular denomination or religion was so nice or inviting. Neither can faith properly be understood and abandoned because of someone else’s dysfunction. This being said no one has any right to tell us, we have to be perfect to sit in a pew. In fact, this is upside down, you have to be imperfect and know it to be receptive to grace. It seems that in those circumstances people forget the nature of the problem of sin in the Christian life in general, the nature of logical belief, and/or forget how to apply it in the particular circumstance where forgiveness and understanding are needed/expressed.