Even if the ones I love turn around and crucify me
I won’t never ever let you down
(Needtobreathe)
If you haven't seen what Matthew Paul Turner has been stirring up the last couple days, you should go check it out. I don't want to make it into a big deal but these posts and Andrew's experience have really opened up some freshly healed wounds for me. I haven't yet completely overcome my own "excommunication" or the events leading up to it, but my heart is breaking for Andrew completely independent from my own experiences.
I try so hard to live a life that lacks judgement and shows unwavering compassion and I fail all the time. My weakest moments are in the face of hurts caused by my fellow Christians. Why must we be so cruel? Why do Christians so often use God's love as a weapon or a threat? Why does it make me SO angry? Why can I accept my own weakness and sin and know that God is healing my brokenness in his own time, but I am so slow to forgive others?
It is something I know is wrong. It is something I am working on. It is something that gets increasingly harder as I see and FEEL the pain that is inflicted on the already broken world by the church. But we must rest in the peace and comfort that God is bigger and more powerful than even Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll. All we can do is love and forgive and love some more.
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