The Cure

I was baptized as a Christian when I was 13. Sadly, after just about a year or so, my family left our church because of that deadly "D" word-discouragement. At age 28 I returned to a Christian church and after a few years I had a "bubble burst" situation. As a baby Christian I thought that the leaders in the church had it all together. I looked up to them and so to see them behave in ways that were incompatible with how I thought a Christian should behave made me very sad.

God opened my eyes and explained to me that the church is a hospital and instead of sitting in my tears I should be part of the solution and not criticize those I once looked up to. Fortunately I listened. When I hear the Christian church criticized by outsiders it doesn't bother me so much because we have made some huge mistakes, no doubt about it, but when I hear my brothers in sisters in Christ talk negatively about the church I cringe.

We were not placed at such a time as this to tear down the temple. We were placed here at this specific time in history to help mend the woes of our neighbor by sharing the character of God that cures all the hurt and pain he or she is struggling with. Only by reaching that one soul can we reach the world. We are suffering from the virus of sin, a disease that is basically a breakdown of trust of our God and some of those symptoms are discouragement, cynicism, fault finding, and hate. The only cure is to look to our Best Friend and not at what the pastor or priest is doing or how the church manages its finances or even what they served at potluck. I challenge you to be part of the solution, part of the cure. Share the goodness of God and see how fast the sick become whole again.