Dear Adam, Mike, and Mark,
I must apologize to you. In the article “Bryan Breakfast Club: Preachers or Pretenders,” you made the claim that Christians are hypocrites and I agree with you, we certainly are. I would like to apologize for our bad witness and terrible portrayal of Christ. Everyday we fail miserably in our goal of perfection and our attempts to be Christ-like. I am truly sorry for giving you this false impression of Christ.
Hypocrisy is claiming to have virtues that you do not posses. I would encourage you to ask any Christian if they are completely virtuous and all around perfect. Very few, if any, will tell you they are. Christianity does not make a person perfect, but shows us just how imperfect we are. It gives the example of the one who was perfect: Jesus. It is our own failure to achieve the goal of perfection which inevitably makes us hypocrites. I would encourage you to not look at those of us who are failing to live up to this standard of perfection, but look at the One who defines what perfection is. These are God’s standards and not ours. Because of this, God should not be discredited because we have failed to obey Him.
We all keep certain moral rules, and just because they are broken we don’t completely disregard them and we still believe that they are valuable. One thing most of us would consider to be wrong is murder. Yet we know that people murder. We still consider it to be wrong, despite that rule being broken. As athletes, you understand that the sport you play has rules and you agree to follow those rules as you are playing. If the other team breaks the rules, they still apply. You don’t play the rest of the game without the rules simply because they’ve been broken.
So why are we disregarding God’s standards because someone breaks them? While you don’t disregard standards for murder or cheating because someone breaks them, I would ask you not to disregard God’s standards because Christians break them. Please, don’t let my failures keep you from approaching God.
by Anonymous