Missed the Mark

I'm going to try my hardest to make this blog organized and really show my heart through my words. I'm prefacing with that sentence because right now, I have a lot of thoughts running through my head. Quite honestly, the thoughts aren't all that nice towards my fellow Christians. Up until now, I've kept my mouth shut about things that are going on politically (unless you're one of the privileged ones that have had the honor of listening to me rant about it) but I just can't anymore.

A week ago, the Supreme Court made homosexual marriage legal. And guess what.

Absolutely nothing changed.

If you're married, your marriage is still the same. Nothing more. Nothing less.

If you're not married, then you can still get married to someone of the opposite sex.

To me, marriage is a religious entity. It's a commitment between me, my husband, and God. The government is obsolete in a marriage. So why does it matter what the government decides? I serve Christ, not the government. 

Homosexuals make up 2% of the general population. So now 2% of our population is a little more happy. I don't see that as a problem.

But that's not the issue that has me struggling. My problem is that Christians missed the mark.

Last week, Christians were in the spotlight. People were waiting to see how we reacted. And you know what? As a whole, Christians failed.

The amount of hatred and judgment that I saw was sickening.

This was our chance. Our chance to show people that we can love them without agreeing with them. Our chance to embrace them and show them love and grace. And a ton of people, or at the very least, the loudest of people, were screaming judgmental and hateful things about the homosexual community.

Yall, there's a difference in supporting the person and supporting the sin. Why do we feel the need to call out the sin in a group of people? In order to call out the sin of someone, there must be a relationship present first. It's gone about in a very distinct way (shout out Matthew 18) and saying hateful things about a giant group of people is not the way to do it.

We're in a time in our country where Christians need to stand up.

Not to change policies.

Not to change it back to "the good ol days"

Not to call out the sin in everyone.

We need to stand up and love people like Christ loves us. If our words towards unbelievers (and even believers) are anything but loving, then they don't need to be said. If they have the potential to send someone running the other way away from Christ, then keep them to yourself.

Seek Christ

Love people.

Pray for our country.

Just stop with the hate and the judgement.  Those words aren't bringing anyone into the Church or showing anyone who Christ is.

Truthfully, there are much bigger issues we should be focusing on right now. Like the fact that churches are being burned down just because they are made up of mainly Black citizens. Or that mass shootings are still taking place. Or that a flag that is a symbol of racism and war is JUST NOW being taken out of use. Or the fact that there a ton of people in America that don't know where their next meal is coming from or where they'll sleep tonight. These are the issues that we need to pay attention to.

So on top of praying for our country and all the tension in the country right now, pray for Christians. I pray that all of my brothers and sisters in Christ will be hyper-sensitive to their actions and words, especially towards non-believers. I pray that we show Christ's love in every action we take, every word we speak, and every sentence we type.

You may not agree with anything I have to say but that's totally fine with me. That's the beauty of the human population. We can have different opinions and it's perfectly fine!