Double Standards

 

So many of us today are living with Double Standards.  We want our cake and we want to eat it too.  

Christians are bashed daily for not being Christian enough.  We are called hypocrites because we don't do things exactly as the bible is outlined.  We invite people over and over again to church only to get responses such as, "We will try to be there."  Then they don't show up.  Then we are talked about with things such as, "Worry about your own salvation and not mine."  Well if we go by the outline of the bible and spread the gospel and extend invitations like it says then we are still talked about. So which one is it?  Are we not Christian enough or too Christian?

Sounds like a Double Standard to me.  You?

The Church is for Sinners.  No one there is claiming to be perfect otherwise, the church would be empty and there wouldn't be a need for a church.  We use other excuses like I don't go because people still gossip.  Well we can't and won't stop that but, guess what?  That's a God and heart problem within that person.  Not between you and that person. All you have to do is choose to walk away and not participate. 

Yes, you maybe known as stuck up or maybe, "she/he thinks her/his crap doesn't stink, for a lack of better terms.  But guess what, Your Not Participating!  Your not pretending to be perfect either, your just not participating because you know it isn't right.  You know because your heart tells you it isn't right.  God tells you it isn't right.  But here again, another Double Standard, if I participate it's okay if it's the person doing it that I'm talking to but, it's not okay if they are doing it and talking about me to someone else.  Because then as a Christian I become the main topic such as, "Every time I'm around her/him she/he talks about people."  And you can bet they aren't going to tell them that they started the conversation, they aren't going to tell them the awful things they said, they aren't going to especially when it's their own FAMILY members.

Sounds like a Double Standard to me.  You?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  G.P. W. L

                                                                                                                                                                                                             Melissa Harris