Mean church people, lost identity.

(John 13:34-35 NKJV) A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. (35) By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.

CB radio conversation between Amos and Tag-along.

Amos, jokingly: “That was kind of mean.”

Tag-along, not as jokingly: “You haven’t seen mean yet; you don’t want me to go there.”

Amos, now not as jokingly either: “Go for it; take your best shot. I was a pastor for 11 years. I know what mean is.  You don’t have anything over on those church folks.”

I was serious. I had seen mean people; I had the training. There was nothing that he could say or do that would compare to the meanness that I faced as a pastor. If you want to see mean, just get in the way of a good church person’s agenda. They will open up a “can” on you.

Do you ever think how ironic this is?

On two points:
1) That we are so mean being the loving followers of Christ and all.
2) That this meanness is so accepted.

I met with the pastor of a large church, whose name you would very possibly recognize if I mentioned it which I won’t, to discuss my future as a pastor. In speaking to a situation he had with a man in his church, he stated: “That’s the way it is.”

Accepted. That’s the way it is. Keep the organization together for the good it does.

Think through this with me.
We have an organization with the words of God on our book shelves and coffee tables, the Spirit of God living in us and the Son of God who came to Earth to live so he could perfectly identify with our needs and to die for us, and we are no better off than the envious, jealous, immoral church of the first century, and often no different than the unsaved around us.

Aren’t you supposed to get better at something after doing it for a while?

But the world doesn’t know even who we are most of the time because of our meanness and hatefulness to each other.

Said it out loud. But I don’t have to convince you if you have been in church for any length of time at all.

The mean and ornery of this world, the tough guys like the one I referred to earlier. . .no surprise there.

But in the Church, we should be shocked and saddened, but we are not.

Because “that’s the way it is.”

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