Why do we all have to be “right”? Why do we have to think that “we” are better than “they” are? Why do we all have to think that God is on “our” side and not “theirs”?

Why do we all have to be “right”?

These days evangelical Christians seem to be the easy target for being hypocrites when they say they have issues with those in the LGBT community. But I would like to propose that we ALL have issues that need to be dealt with as we relate to others.

When I posted a simple wish that someday, maybe, pastors will convey to their congregations that there are people in their church who are hurting and scared because they’re gay or transgender – I got a plateful of opinions from pastors who wanted to either “be separated” from someone like me for proposing it to being told I need a Savoir (well duh! Who doesn’t?)

So I get the whole crazy right that will just shun the thought of hugging and being loving toward someone who is LGBT. They have taken verses from the Bible and use that as an excuse to be just as rude and mean and (yes, in some cases) hateful of those that they just don’t want to try to understand in any way, shape or form. I’m talking about Christians who would rather go into a prison and preach to a group of people who have committed murder rather than talk to someone on the street or in their church who might be gay or someone who might be transgender.

But… then there is the other side (may I call them the “left” or “more liberal” for our purposes here?) They are willing to talk with, hug and welcome those in the LGBT community into their various churches or fellowships, yet for some reason they think that gives them carte blanche to blast away at those “evil” evangelicals for not loving (the word most commonly used that I see is “hate”) those who may be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

I recently saw a post and this was quoted… “You know you are awakening to Grace when you increasingly see Jesus in everything broken, condemned, and marginalized, and evil in all that is religious, self-righteous, and draped in spiritual pretentiousness.”

Isn’t it “spiritual pretentiousness” when you accuse others of that very thing?

Really? Isn’t it “spiritual pretentiousness” when you accuse others of that very thing? Maybe it’s me, but isn’t God the only one really qualified to determine who is and isn’t being “spiritually pretentious”? I mean after all, aren’t we all basing it on our interpretation of the scriptures? Because someone interprets it differently than us, what makes us right and them wrong. THEY feel the same way! They’re right and we’re wrong. (I’m not trying to take sides here in the “us” and “them” field, just trying to make the point.)

We ALL like to think we’ve studied the Bible, we’ve thought about it, we’ve prayed about it, we’ve talked about it with others and the conclusion we’ve come to MUST be the correct one. Surprise surprise, others have done the very same thing and come up with the exact OPPOSITE conclusions.

So what do we do when there are other Christians who don’t think like we do? We immediately CONDEMN them as hateful or Biblically illiterate. Why? Because WE are RIGHT! We suddenly become more hateful in our moral superiority toward other Christians than we are to out and out sinners who don’t know Jesus and don’t even want to.

…EMBRACE your imperfection. You SUCK! You STINK! You sin differently than others…

Can we accept that maybe, just maybe we may not be 100% correct in ALL of our theology, that maybe those we disagree with just might have PART of it right just as we do? If you can’t, may I suggest you get on your knees right now?

To quote a verse (Genesis 1:27) that is often thrown at those who are transgender… “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” God didn’t create us fully male and fully female. We’re different. Men and women are different. So if men and women disagree, who is right? God created both men and women differently not just physically but in how they think,  how they see and interpret the world. And… that translates into their interpretation of the Bible. Neither is necessarily wrong, but it opens the possibility that not one of us knows everything, even when we think we do. There are parts of God in men and parts of God in women that together give us a better image of what God must be like.

I know I just went off on a side note just there, but my point is – we are ALL made different. If your pastor is 100% right on everything he speaks about, then you need to get out more – or else you need to develop a more critical mind. Because he’s wrong – in something. He’s NOT God – he doesn’t know EVERYTHING! (Do I need to use more caps to get my point across?)

We do not have all the answers. It’s just little ‘ol us and the God of the universe. He has all the answers, and He has given us a vehicle to learn and grow to become more like Him through Jesus, but Jesus lived a perfect life – we haven’t, we won’t, we can’t. We failed at the very first chance we had.

So EMBRACE your imperfection. You SUCK! You STINK! You sin differently than others, but you still sin – so get over yourself! You’re a mess! I’m a mess! We are ALL a mess! It’s through the blood of Jesus that God sees us as worthy.

If you’re on what is called the evangelical right – learn about grace and what it is to love people you disagree with. If you’re on the more liberal left, then practice the same grace you accuse the right of not having toward them. You’re as bad as they are, just in a different way.

We are ALL God’s children. We are ALL in the family of Christ. We need to act more like adults in His family rather than little immature children saying “he hit me” and “well they started it!”

And with that loving thought – I wish God’s greatest blessing on y’all, for HE is good!!!!

Blessings kids! Now behave yourselves!

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