W.W.J.D

How do you feel about Christians? This is a question that I ask often. As a whole, I wonder if non believers struggle to listen to the Good News or invite Christ into their lives because they have encountered far too many unsavory followers of Christ. As hard as it is to admit or even address, I've been a mean spirited Christian before. I've been the Christian that operated in my flesh and called it discernment. I've been the Christian that sent sermons to people knowing good and well that the person was not in a place to receive that Word. I've been there which is why I can address it, pray against it and truly say that this type of overly holy roller exists and they harm more than they heal. Truth be told, I have friends from all walks of life. Some are believers, some are atheist, some are avid sage babies. When I had the courage to ask them why they don't believe in Christ, 80 percent of them say.. "ITS THE PEOPLE FOR ME!" My heart breaks every time. My heart breaks simple because it hurts to know that some of us have done such a poor job at exhibiting Christ-like behavior that we are prolonging or God forbid, altering someone else's road to salvation. OUCH! I remember when I first started walking with Christ for real, for real. It felt freedom. I felt like this was who I was supposed to be all along but I also made sure that I had wise counsel. I had my earthly father aka Dad and I had a friend that I met in LA. She never judged me and she dealt with me in love. When I had questions, she answered them. When I was on the path to backslide, she held my hand and prayed with me. When I decided to get baptized, she was the loudest one clapping and when it was time for me to get off the milk and on the meat, she was there with her knowledge coupled with wisdom. A true destiny helper to be frank. Trust and believe on the flip side of the coin I too, have experienced the Christian that has hurt me and what's worse is, some of them will hurt you and claim that it's in Jesus' name but it's up to you, me and us to kill that spirit of manipulation. False prophets exists, shawty! The one thing I know for certain is that the world WILL disappoint, I just want to continue to be the type of Christian that makes following Jesus look good. The last thing we want is for Jesus to come collect our souls and folks get left behind because they ran into a pack of nasty Christians that made them say "nah, ill pass". So I challenge us in this unprecedented time to do a heart check and ask ourselves.. are we exhibiting Christ-like behavior or are we being mean, hypocritical, judgmental and harsh? WWJD?