Here’s an interesting video I found over at Rethinking Youth Ministry. It’s a bit over the top, but the point is pretty clear.  Over on RTYM, one of the commenters to this video post said that “This lays it on really thick. If only the disingenuous Christians were always so obviously heretical/ignorant.” While they are right to some degree, here are some actual heretical/ignorant things I’ve heard in churches…

I once was confronted by an leader in a church that told me, “Jesus was just too touchy feely… Now Paul on the other hand…”

Or from a pastor’s wife after I preached to the youth group, “That whole Shepherd leaving the 99 to go after the one stray sheep - I don’t buy it.”

Any amazingly dumb things you’ve heard from Christians?

The other day, I posed on Facebook this question:

“I’m wondering, why we, as Christians, get riled up over the wrong things”

I won’t say what situation tipped me off, but I will include myself in this category of people getting riled up over the wrong things. I was more asking the question,  not really expecting an answer. But I got one.  A friend of mine quickly shot me this reply.

“Funny you should wonder why we get riled up over the wrong things, I almost responded to someone else’s wondering…and I was going to allow myself to be pulled into griping over something unworthy of my ire.

Even as I tried to form the response to your musing…I find myself being judgmental…so I guess for me the answer is pride. Least that is what I figure. We all want to right, demonstrate that we are wise or smart or more holy…and demand that others follow the same rules we live by, or that God has given to us.

Or maybe we are just trying to distract from our own failings.”

What a good response.

I love how, often times, the truth is simple, unexpected and humbling.

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