On Hurts in the Church

On Hurts in the Church
by
Daniel Law


Most hurts in church are NOT caused by doctrinal differences, but by human differences, or the unwillingness to accept there are differences.

By this I mean our narrow-ness and mean-ness to each other.

When Christians are called to follow Christ, they are called to lay down their "selves" - egos. It has little to do with who is right or who is wrong; not even with why or when we should yield our positions. But with loving others as ourselves.

Oh I know. You will jeer at me for being naiive and unsavvy in the ways of the world, but it is exactly because of this that we all need to emulate Christ. We are to be naiive in the ways of the world but wise in the ways of the Lord. Do you get me?

We are to be DIFFERENT from the world in the ways we deal with each other. We are to stop tearing at each other LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD!

It is sad - so very sad - to see leaders of the church take japs at each other, to bar and to reject each other due to some little personal differences, but magnifying them as "grand-daddy issues hindering the operation of the church", which, in the end, is nothing but a fear of "rocking the boat," or causing problems for the leadership!

We are all sinners who need to return to the shadow of the Cross and be corrected every now and then. Only in the shadow of the Cross, and being touched by His gentleness and love and forgivenness for us sinners, will we be able to return to being simple kids once again.

Simplicity in love and caring is what we need, and need sorely...More to come.