Christians Judging The World - Facing The Pharisee
Posted on April 19, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement
What comes up in your mind when you hear the word ‘Christian’? When people on the street were asked what they think of when they hear the word ‘Christian’, descriptions like hypocrites, fake, judgmental and pushy followed.
The real question that needs to be answered is that if Christianity’s main source of influence is love, then why does it have one of the most negative connotations among all religions? Something must have gone terribly wrong. Isn’t Christianity supposed to allow people to experience more peace in the world? Why do so many people hate Christians?
Christians read the Bible every day. They pray every day. They go to church every Sunday. They try to do all the right things and with that they think that it will guarantee a better relationship with God that will enable them to change the world (its definitely necessary, but not the determinant). All the doing has taken many Christians to a point where they create the very problems that they try to solve.
Many Christians have grown up with a religion mentality instead of a relationship-with-God mentality. They have grown up with a bunch of laws. This very fact has created the perfect 21st century Pharisee. A Pharisee that walk around pointing fingers to everyone that falls outside there perception of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. Judging people when they have rings in all sorts of places, tattoos like Michael Scofield in Prison Break, or not having the same faith as they do. This hypocrisy has gone so far that Christians judge each for being too charismatic or being too conservative. They judge each other on what they believe and how they believe. It is these very judgments that are the source of the very problems that they try to solve.
Maybe it is time for Christians to look inside them. To become aware of the fact that the very things they judge other people on is inside themselves. It has just been severely suppressed. Maybe it is time for Christians to face the Pharisee within themselves. Maybe it is time for Christians to do less and be more. God has created us human beings not human doings.
Gandhi’s advice to missionaries once, when they wanted to know how Indians can understand Jesus better, was to ponder the rose. “It doesn’t do anything, it just smells”, was Gandhi’s answer to them.
People will only open up themselves for transformation once Christians truly get that the power of love lies in it when it is part of your being not by trying to ‘do’ it. Transformation will take place in this world when Christians can become the Aroma of Christ.
Imagine a world wherein there is no judgment. Even better, imagine how your life will change if you are a human being instead of a human doing. A life like this would be a life wherein one is not only freed from verbal judgments but also judgments that is taking place mentally.
Such a world can only become possible once I include myself as a Pharisee, since I am not exempt from this group of Christians. But I do so as one that is aware of it; as a creator and not a victim.
How do you view yourself? That is the transformational question.
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Steyn Viljoen
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