A Christian should never feel alone when surrounded by a bunch of fellow Christians. This is a call for all Christians to step it up and to be there for one another. This pass semester hasnt been the hardest of my life, with classes, church and family problems. I don’t know how many times I just needed someone to talk to or someone to just tell me to focus on Christ and everything would be ok.
I thought about ending it all I mean I didn’t try to kill myself but I sat there and thought about it. The first day I called 10 people and sent out texts not one person asked what was going. They sent me I’m busy texts back or others didn’t even answer their phones but instead went about their lives.
Being where I came from those few years ago a life on the street, in the clubs and partying, I walked away from all of that but since it hasnt been easy. As a Christian, we are called to love one another and I honestly have not felt the love.
In addition, if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 1 cor 13:3
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; Rom 12:10
The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 1 John 2:10
Recently I have started going to bars and clubs and hanging with lost people. Not that I have done anything wrong because I have not gotten drunk or even drank nor have I lusted after new looking guys but I have started going out because non- Christians are the ones calling me up. It could be Satan trying to tempt me but my question for you is why are lost people more loving and kind to me than people who are fighting the same fight as I. Why do I feel like I could call up a lost friend and say hey I need to talk and they listen when my Christian friends are to busy. Why do lost people constantly call me to hangout or at least to see how I am but Christians who claim to be my friends have no idea that I was sitting in the bathroom thinking about cutting my wrist? My lost professor is hugging me because I feel like a complete failure but my friends from church tell me to suck it up.
Am I the only one who sees a problem here? Why would any non-believe want to be a Christian when his/her non-believing friends care about them more then we do. It is a mess and we need to work on it as a whole to put a stop to it. These surprise parties and these invitations only gatherings need to stop. They make people feel bad and feel left out. I personally have a good amount of friends and have felt like crap when someone calls post or me on face book about a party or a get together that I was not included in. We need to take responsibility; the excuse that I don’t invite anyone is lame and not healing the hurt feelings. If you don’t invite people maybe you should start. The other day I talk to a new believer and she told me “Jen I rather just go out and party and stop going to BCM, I don’t feel welcomed and the cliques aren’t taking new members.” I am not saying as Christians we need to be best friends with everyone because I will honestly say here and now that I don’t like everyone but I love everyone and I want to be there for everyone. We can love others because Christ loved us first so let us start living that.
The other day I post a face book status and it made me see first hand what people thought about Christians.
Jennifer Sims Just feels so burdened over sin and the lost. What are us Christians doing for the world.And this is what a non-believer sees.
bad things Christians are doing for the world
1. halting US research on embryonic stem cells
3. sending bibles to Muslim countries in their native language, to be passed out by US military service men in their "off time" putting our men and women in further danger. This is a crime punishable by death in certain areas.
4. Christian groups are funding web development to change google results for the subject on evolution
good things Christians are doing:
1. Feeding the poor
2. Rebuilding villages.
It is my opinion the bad out weighs the good, the all the good that is done could be done by the same people without giving money to these organizations to buy politicians and further their agendas
Not that I agree with everything he says but that’s sad that to the outside world we look like this.
The other day while at the mall with a couple of friends who are on church college leadership were asking people what Christmas meant a lady responded with a
“You Christians are so closed minded, you think that you are the only people who matter and if we don’t believe what you do were bad people” [paraphrased]
We need to step it up. We need to get out of our little bubbles though it is hard and love on some people who feel unloved or even hated by us. If I feel like this with the people, I know I just wonder and fear how people feel that know no one. Remember it is not about us or what we feel comfortable doing it’s about peoples souls and the Love of Christ. Sorry but I had to put that out there.
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