Growing numbers of Christians and
non-Christians are bewildered by a sense of the inauthenticity and the lack of
real and genuine love among us. The words fake, arrogant, and aloof all too
often describe and characterize us, both inside and outside the Christian
community. Believers become apathetic and cynical. They’re floundering and
drifting. Unbelievers look and say, “Who cares?” There’s nothing different in
the Christian community. These unbelieving observers then turn away and go
about business as usual. And all the while we are consumed with constructing
our Christian bowling alleys and health clubs, dogmatically privileging our
doctrines over people, constructing our apologetics without love, and chasing after
making more and more money. We are missing the mark of a Christian: failing to
truly love others and to authentically care and act in Christ like ways.
This, it must be said loud and clear, is deplorable.
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