Philip K Stone

Flexible Christians

We live in a society that sees church as a rigid set of rules that not even christians can keep.

Is that really what church is mean’t to be? Sometimes I think that ‘holy Christians’ you know those who are superior to the rest of us because they have a large king james Bible in the finest leather, they wear a remus whatever you call it suit, they sport the trendiest ties and the newest shoes, (Basically they feed capitalism and cripple the poor) they don’t move or respond to a sermon, they turn to a cement statue during worship and greet you with the deep voice and sad face saying ‘its great to be in the house of the Lord’?

Is it? I feel like screaming, you don’t look great about it?

i’ve heard many say something about wearing your heart on your sleeve and boy how we need to stop pretending thats alls good inside, In this society people are criticised for wearing their problems on the outside? They are the honest ones, I would say if everyone decided tomorrow to wear their problems on the outside there would be a few screams. (even in churches as well as workplaces and homes)

As Phil said a few weeks ago we are the body of Christ, one that has actually got Arms and Legs (although they have seemed removed for many years), Well we as individuals have got Arms and legs as well so we need to use them for God.

We need to speak with our acts of kindness, we need to love the less well off, we don’t need to go to Africa to find poverty, Lurgan, Portadown and many other towns and villages close by are polluted with poverty, We need to reach out and stop criticising people who reach out because of their method.

I’d rather be remembered as a trier than a failure! So today Flex those spiritual muscles, God doens’t feed us to make us fat, He feeds us so that we can feed others!