Who do you present to others?
Watched a documentary about church scandals. Lots of truths exposed, lots of presumptions inevitably made.
The show draws your eyes in like driving by a car wreck. For some reason we like other people’s misfortune. Similarly, other people’s sin is also attractive to us. Maybe it makes us feel better about ourselves. I don’t know. We tend to like things like that.
What I don’t like is the image this and other programs like it paints of the church at large, much less Christians in general.
It makes it easy to write off following Jesus because of the “hypocrisy.” As if that very trait couldn’t be found in every human being and in every human endeavor. It becomes an excuse to not face our own shortcomings and surrender to God.
Within every church “scandal” is a group of flawed believers who are looking for answers through Jesus. Despite all our human shortcomings, the One we follow is perfect.
One positive takeaway from this documentary? It gives us an opportunity to look in the mirror and ask, “Who Am I?”
