Is different bad?
I know you are asking yourself: What the heck is he on about.... Well let me help you get on track with my grief.
Of the things I could anticipate, persecution from the body of Christ is the last thing.
How does the church persecute you ask?
In this way.
When one denomination has a picture of what a believer should look like, behave like, and talk like, chances are, whoever professes Christ but does not fit their mould, would be classified as dodgy and less of a believer. How do I know this, well, I am in it now.
Being assessed and classified by other believers as a questionable character aint fun at all. Self-exclusion from gathering becomes a way out cause you always feel like you are swimming in a pool of peanut butter. And the most pressing concern is, what of non-believers that are visiting the church. How are they feeling?
Is the body of Christ a body, or a cooperation of people who behave and believe the same way?
Is Jesus a group God or a personal God?
Is ones relationship with the church magna-carta more important than the relationship with Christ?
What then, when Christ calls you to do something that is not in the cooperate plan of the church?
Are we, as a church, holding people back from personally experiencing Christ, and obeying His call in their lives, just because it goes against the church's mandate and plan?
You ponder on that, and seek Gods opinion on it.
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