I've quit professing that I'm a Christian. I will say things like I have a relation ship with Christ or I follow Christ, but I'm not a Christian. The thing is that this word has started to mean something I don't like, or that it should. Some how being Christian has come to mean that you can now mistreat, you can no longer care about human rights, and we can judge and condemn. You can suddenly start doing things that lead to mistreating people and it should be ok and we should all stand behind because you are Christian.
This isn't Christ. I remember lots of people coming to Christ. I don't remember him turning people away. He never said to Mary Magdalen, "Sorry, you've made poor life choices, I can't help you." Christ didn't say, "I know your friends just made a hole in someone else roof, but your gay and I can't heal you." Jesus spent time with people who were in the greatest sense a sinner, and never told them He couldn't help. If you are a "Christian", isn't this the example. I clearly remember Him saying he came in the world to save it, not to condemn. Where did we get the idea that we could condemn it?
It doesn't make sense that we have a clear example of love and serving, and somehow we think that in the name of religion we can mistreat others. What happened? I understand that we aren't suppose to ok with sinning. I'm pretty sure there is only person who never sinned. It isn't Christlike to turn people, it just isn't something he did. If we are going to say it's ok to turn away someone who is gay because they are gay, they we need to star turning people away who view porn, we need to start turning away people who've been divorced, we need to start turning away woman who've had an abortion.
Until being Christian is something more like what suppose be, something that reflects Christ, I'm not one.
