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A few days ago I was chatting in another Christian chat as I often do. As I entered, the room was in uproar over a guy who had apparently said things that offended others and people were crying out for a MOD to get him kicked out. So I PM'd the guy straight away and explained that I had just entered the room and asked him what he had done. He responded by saying " I was just being honest and they didnt like it", so again I asked him what he had said. I wont repeat his exact words as they were sexually explicit, but he was saying how much he enjoyed these certain things. So I responded " ok, well I guess you were being honest about it! I can understand why you would enjoy such things as God did create it.....BUT He created it to be in the confines of marriage for a reason".
I then went on to explain how people get hurt when things are not exclusive, as in Gods design and then asked why he was seeking the flesh and not the deeper things in life? He started to explain things that had happened in his life, how a few times he had wanted to kill himself and then opened up about an experience he had as a child knowing he was loved by Jesus.
The conversation lasted a couple of hours but it was only half way through when he said "thanks bro" did he realise I was a female. He was shocked that I had not responded badly to how he first spoke and the language he used.
Since then I have pondered many things:
*If we die to self how can a dead person get offended?
* How many lost hurting people have we rejected because our "offence" is more important than their hurt? Is that really loving others above ourselves?
*Did Jesus tell people to watch their mouth before He would reach out to them and love them?
*Are Christians becoming so *Holy* they do not like to get their hands dirty anymore in helping the lost?
*Do we really see past the outward shell of a person, ignoring the roughness, so we can take time and get to the heart of the matter?
It was good to share the love of God with this person and to be able to pray for him. It was good for him to feel accepted just as he was and not feel judged so he could receive more from God.
Are we really living in a world where Christians expect others to live up to their standard before they will even speak to them?
I then went on to explain how people get hurt when things are not exclusive, as in Gods design and then asked why he was seeking the flesh and not the deeper things in life? He started to explain things that had happened in his life, how a few times he had wanted to kill himself and then opened up about an experience he had as a child knowing he was loved by Jesus.
The conversation lasted a couple of hours but it was only half way through when he said "thanks bro" did he realise I was a female. He was shocked that I had not responded badly to how he first spoke and the language he used.
Since then I have pondered many things:
*If we die to self how can a dead person get offended?
* How many lost hurting people have we rejected because our "offence" is more important than their hurt? Is that really loving others above ourselves?
*Did Jesus tell people to watch their mouth before He would reach out to them and love them?
*Are Christians becoming so *Holy* they do not like to get their hands dirty anymore in helping the lost?
*Do we really see past the outward shell of a person, ignoring the roughness, so we can take time and get to the heart of the matter?
It was good to share the love of God with this person and to be able to pray for him. It was good for him to feel accepted just as he was and not feel judged so he could receive more from God.
Are we really living in a world where Christians expect others to live up to their standard before they will even speak to them?
