I speak of the kind that frown at trouser-wearing women while the same church's branch in Texas cares less, those who taught many while I was a child, that television was the devil's box and material things, specifically luxurious material things - are idols, and owning them was towing the devil's lane and playing perfectly into his hands but cruised around in arnoured luxury cars with private guards.Some things just never made sense to me, and as I grew older, some that had made sense eventually stopped.
I recall being a staunch believer in avoiding taking the Holy Communion if you were a sinner, as I was against women wearing trousers, but those changed even before I turned 25 (when the human brain is said to fully form).
I find it hard to comprehend adults divided over inconsequential matters such as these when even a child can see through the facade. If we're all one in the body of Christ, why do standards defining one as a true believer differ regionally, and how is it that grown-ups find it hard to realise they're not really standards but rather societal constructs based on geographical disparities?
Before we proceed, let's agree on one thing right now - you do not achieve Holiness, you receive Holiness.
If that doesn't make sense to you, oh dear... you'll probably not make sense of all you've read so far and will read consequently. But stay with me, you just might, and this will be quick anyway.
To become a Christian, you have to accept Christ, you become Christ-like, and that makes you worthy to communicate with God, come before His throne, have the Holy Spirit dwell inside of you, study God's word, live the God-life... what part of all this seems like what you work for and not what you receive, learn and grow in?
Vanquishing sin, death and reinitiating our connection with God by the sacrifice on the cross of Calvary, for all, was done by Jesus Christ, the only son of God, not you or another human.
So why do you have to be "holy" by some human standards before you can take the Holy communion? But those human standards don't stop you from receiving Christ? Which is greater, I ask, the part bread and wine or the entire entity Himself?
Communion put together by a community that "accepted" you but won't let you commune with them? Due to the standards they set up that they themselves mayhaps fall short of?
Why judge clothing choice that isn't sheer nudity based on gender, geographical assignment of their appropriateness, while the first set of folks who wore skirts and high heels were men?
Why set rules you or your family don't follow, dear pastor?
When did the geese stop being good for what's good for the gander?
Please don't let's talk about blood transfusion and the sect that recently made a U-turn on that.
Note, this writing, as you may find it, insights shared or sheer rambling isn't against maintaining societal norms that keep sanity, but rather it's a checkpoint for hypocrites, those in the body of Christ that seem to forget it's about the gospel of good news and not the gospel of their opinions or preference.
Look in the mirror, who's really broken? Those you judge or the standards by which you do? You.
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