Hypocrisy: Phonies in your church?

 (from 2007)

Three times in the last weeks I've been informed that the church is filled with phonies. Fakes. Hypocrites. 

I suppose they have a point, but Phony-watchers have some blind spots.

They never seem to see the phonies in their peer group. Or their club. Or their supermarket.

People who have seen inconsistencies in you and me don't see the big loopholes in their own philosophy of life. 

They don't see the inconsistencies of their behavior and attitudes. Only ours. If they blow it, they're "only human" because "people make mistakes." When we do, we're phonies.

Of course, some of us are phonies. Every group has its losers. Who bears the cross of Christ perfectly in your church? I'm thinking of a few members of my own. It wouldn't take long for the self-appointed critics to find flaws in these people,  though.

God deliver us from being hypocrites, but also from being judges. Both actions are condemned by Jesus.

Speaking of Jesus, no one can rightly accuse Him of ever having been unreal. We beg those who can only see phonies in the church to take a long look at Him.

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