An accusation against, "christians" is that they are fakers. The truth of the matter is, in many cases the accusation is valid!
To
many Christians put on a pious spiritual front around other people to
where their entire demeanour changes and they become a different person
than they are in life living. This turns unbelievers off because they
sense the facade of authenticity that takes place.
Christians need to live in the real world and realize
that people have good built-in crap detectors. The one thing these
detectors sniff out faster than anything else is fake authenticity.
Christians are projected as being all tarred with the same brush.
They present themselves as being cloned from the same mould. There are differences between the different denominated moulds but, within
each denominational mould all members are cloned alike. Their
individuality is overshadowed by the spiritual mask that is so far
removed from the reality of daily living that the facade is easily
picked by people's built-in crap detectors.
Behind these facade fronts we hide our quirks, our
humanity, our mistakes and our failures. Because of the performance
based mentality of attaining spiritual maturity and having the group
acceptance, an hypocritical approach is maintained to look good
spiritually in the eyes of the hierarchy "spiritual elites" within the denomination they are Christians under.
Believers, we need to own our quirks, they are what
make us unique individuals, they also let nonbelievers know we are human
and subject to the failures that is common to the human race, instead
of presenting to them a lifestyle that unbelievers know they are unable to
maintain, one which their crap detectors let them know that the
believer's lifestyle is not the perfect one that it is fabricated to be.
It is not a mark against believers to be honest and
upfront about the struggles they face. In fact, it is a better way to
authenticate their relationship with God who completely understands our humanity.
Granted, we live in a society, secular and religious, in
which the personality cult runs ramped and is accepted that perceived perfection and performance excellence profits to get the spiritual elite
positions and the gaining of religious celebrity status.
This trend is dangerous...believers are human with
the same flaws as other humans. When we openly share our flaws, other
people see us as real people and will be less likely to elevate us to
the pedestal of the super-duper, spiritual-elite faker!
Believers do not have to live a double standard. We
have no right to expect other people to lead a life that we ourselves
are not complying with. It is time to end the facade that most people detect is hiding the trueness of who we are.
Let's make an effort to be who we genuinely are. Our
authenticity will attract people to the Gospel because being a believer
does not negate our humanity, and out honesty in that matter will help
confirm our trust in our Father God full of grace and love.
People, if as believers we walk around in a air of
spiritual superiority by concealing our humanity, the possibility of
falling flat on our face is more apt to happen. By being real and being
ourselves we will become more than ourself because the greater one is in
us and working through us, in-spite of our humanity.
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