Followers of Jesus are regularly called hypocrites in the States. Look at your life, attitudes, and words. I don’t see any of this in the Jesus you claim to follow.
Followers of Jesus are regularly faulted for living according to the way of Jesus. Look at your life, attitudes, and words. You are a judgmental bigot. Filled with hatred and narrow-minded.
We can’t win either way. There is no way to win their game. The world calls us to live according to the Bible and then to not live according to the Bible. That sounds very judgmental, bigoted, and hypocritical.
And it is okay that we can’t win the game. We are not called to play.
Follow Jesus. Love. Pray. Preach his Word in the highways and hedges. Make disciples. Let that convince a hostile world. If this doesn’t work, then nothing will–including them having a visit from a resurrected dead man (Luke 16:31).
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A big shout-out to the folks at the Arkansas Reverb Conference last week! It was great being with you. Here are the promised slides from my presentations: Biblical Church Planting: Reflections and Realities in the 21st Century and Reaching the Strangers Next Door.