It seems pretty common many Christian's believe a personal experience with God equates to doctrine that is mandatory for all. Time and time again I've seen God deal with a person and that person believes that how things happened with them is the only way God functions and if your experience isn't the same, it's not if God.
Christian's doing the same with subjective views. Some things are clearly stated as sin, while others are subjective to the person's conscience. Yet many Christian's believe what they have a problem with in their own conscience is the only truth and must apply to everyone.
Really quite a lot of self importance in these two examples.
Commonly Christian's love to Talk about being loving, yet rarely express it in any meaningful way. And one of the best examples is the average reaction to people seeking help or answers. Typically what you see is Christian's picking from a list of prefabricated answers and finding the one that most closely fits the situation. Usually it's something that sounds like they read it on a bumper sticker. Add in a "sorry you're going through that" and that is all they have to offer. Nothing personal. No connection. Just automated responses and walking away.
Or the alternative is spamming scripture at people.
Lastly just telling them "pray and read your bible and everything will work out".
And if that person ever uses the word religion, forget their problems, there will be a stream of people that chime in only to correct them that "it's a relationship not a religion" while ignoring the person's problem. Though no one ever stops to think how telling someone it's a relationship while ignoring their problems works.
"It's a relationship not a religion". While the basic notion of the idea is understood it is so overused to the point of shoving it down peoples throats (as mentioned above). And not 100% true. Christianity is a religion. Like it or not, that's a fact. Worry less about if someone says the word religion and more about their needs. I've seen many people express how frustrated they are because Christian's focus on things like this rather than helping a person with their needs.
Christian's have developed a reputation for being arrogant and condescending among many in the secular community. But good luck getting a Christian to understand that.
Rather than recognizing the flaw in how they approach people, they find the fault in the unsaved, misapplying scripture to say that the Real problem is that they are blind to the truth. So they continue in the same off putting behaviors while wondering why their witness is so ineffective and wondering why support for churches are diminishing.
As the old saying goes "why should I change if I'm just like you?"
Christian's doing the same with subjective views. Some things are clearly stated as sin, while others are subjective to the person's conscience. Yet many Christian's believe what they have a problem with in their own conscience is the only truth and must apply to everyone.
Really quite a lot of self importance in these two examples.
Commonly Christian's love to Talk about being loving, yet rarely express it in any meaningful way. And one of the best examples is the average reaction to people seeking help or answers. Typically what you see is Christian's picking from a list of prefabricated answers and finding the one that most closely fits the situation. Usually it's something that sounds like they read it on a bumper sticker. Add in a "sorry you're going through that" and that is all they have to offer. Nothing personal. No connection. Just automated responses and walking away.
Or the alternative is spamming scripture at people.
Lastly just telling them "pray and read your bible and everything will work out".
And if that person ever uses the word religion, forget their problems, there will be a stream of people that chime in only to correct them that "it's a relationship not a religion" while ignoring the person's problem. Though no one ever stops to think how telling someone it's a relationship while ignoring their problems works.
"It's a relationship not a religion". While the basic notion of the idea is understood it is so overused to the point of shoving it down peoples throats (as mentioned above). And not 100% true. Christianity is a religion. Like it or not, that's a fact. Worry less about if someone says the word religion and more about their needs. I've seen many people express how frustrated they are because Christian's focus on things like this rather than helping a person with their needs.
Christian's have developed a reputation for being arrogant and condescending among many in the secular community. But good luck getting a Christian to understand that.
Rather than recognizing the flaw in how they approach people, they find the fault in the unsaved, misapplying scripture to say that the Real problem is that they are blind to the truth. So they continue in the same off putting behaviors while wondering why their witness is so ineffective and wondering why support for churches are diminishing.
As the old saying goes "why should I change if I'm just like you?"
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