Too many Christians these days are portraying perfection. This isn't the basis of what they believe. Many unbelievers are driven away from God, because the Christians that they see have an "unreachable amount of perfection". If you keep trying to put this mask of perfection on and portray a lie of living a perfect life, you are actually driving people away from Christianity.
Now, if a person knows that they are not perfect, and they only see Christians living "perfect lives", they say,"I can't be a Christian because I could never be perfect like them". You have just driven away a person from knowing Christ by lying to them with your actions. Many places in the Bible, it teaches that we need to build eachother up, and keep eachother from makeing the mistakes we made in the past. If we're "perfect", we can't do that. I struggle with this SO MUCH. I always want to look perfect so that somebody sees something different in me, but I don't realize that what they see, I'm basically telling them they can't have.
We have to stop lying with our lives, and start living like the forgiven, not the perfect. This is the basis of Christianity.
Now, if a person knows that they are not perfect, and they only see Christians living "perfect lives", they say,"I can't be a Christian because I could never be perfect like them". You have just driven away a person from knowing Christ by lying to them with your actions. Many places in the Bible, it teaches that we need to build eachother up, and keep eachother from makeing the mistakes we made in the past. If we're "perfect", we can't do that. I struggle with this SO MUCH. I always want to look perfect so that somebody sees something different in me, but I don't realize that what they see, I'm basically telling them they can't have.
We have to stop lying with our lives, and start living like the forgiven, not the perfect. This is the basis of Christianity.
