When I was at Bible school I had a friend who had a zit problem.. He only had one zit.. It would come and go every few months and it always seemed to come at the worst of times. My friend decided to name the zit….. He named it Leonard… Every few months he would say to me “Leonards back dude.. I hate him so much!”…
I don’t know if women name their zits.. I’d actually bet that they probably don’t but I know they freak out about them! It’s all they see when they look in the mirror.. That massive whitehead…
“ewwww I can’t even go out in public with this thing on my face!”
Zits are a big deal….
….The church is called the “bride of Christ”… And Jesus is called the bridegroom….
This blows my mind sometimes… I wonder how Jesus could love the church.. And why do I have such a hard time with loving the church?
Sometimes it feels the the church has a huge zit right on her nose… We all see it.. we all scrutinize it..It’s hard to ignore that blemish! Just like it’s hard to ignore the hypocrisy and the lies we see!
But I ask myself.. “is it hard for God to love me?”…. Heck.. I’m not perfect. I’m sometimes hypocritical and back stabbing.. And there’s a lot about me that is probably really annoying to God…Despite all of that… He still loves me!
May I suggest that the church is actually “perfect” in God’s eyes?…. We definitely have some issues and things we need to work on but….. Even with all the blemishes we have.. He still love us..
I won’t drag this thing out any longer….
… We need to try to love the church.. Unconditionally..
1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
Hey Josh. I like it. I recently wrote a similar blog post called “Why I Still Believe in the Church.”
It’s cool to see people in our generation coming to a place of grace regarding the Church.
Shoooooooooot.