Christians are weird.
Maybe it would be kind of prejudice for other people to say this, but, since I myself am a Christian, I think I have the right.
Let me explain a bit.
Christians are weird, because they don't seem to live in the real world a lot of the time. Have you ever been to a church service? They stand there, raising their hands in the air, worshipping an invisible God that most other people (except maybe Jews, Muslims, Mormons etc) don't even believe in, and they they claim that the rest of the world is in denial because they don't believe in Him too!
Weird, eh?
But, then again, I must be weird too, because I believe this as well. But, there are definately some things about 'Christians' that I do not believe.
Its never straight-forward, is it? If only there was one type of Christian, then we could classify them easily. You know, like with ice-cream, you know that vanilla will always taste like vanilla, or choc-banana like choc-banana. But, with Christians, it doesn't seem to be like that.
You hear someone say "I'm a Christian" but what does that mean?
Christian A might be one of those ones who wears scarves on their heads, doesn't drink any alcohol or smoke, spends hours a day reading the Bible, and never seems to have any fun.
Christian B might be a street preacher type, yelling at you as you pass that you're going to hell to burn forever.
Christian C might smile as you come in, say that "We accept you as you are" and not seem to believe in anything at all.
Christian D might be a punk-rocker....
Thats not vanilla! Thats more like 'lucky-dip.'
However, there are some ways to classify Christians. Sometimes, the easiest way to see something is from the inside, and I happen to be on the inside. The Bible (you know, that big fat book Christians read) talks about Christianity as being a body, and explains that there are different parts to the body.
So, Christian A might be a small-intestine, Christian B might be inflamed tonsils, Christian C might be an appendix, and Christian D might be a spleen, but they still might all be Christians.
Then again, there can also be people who call themselves Christians but aren't. Theres a well-known saying among some Christians that "Being in a garage doesn't make you a car" or "Being in McDonalds doesn't make you a hamburger." The basic point to this is that "Being in a church doesn't make you a Christian."
The main issue for Christians is that there are a lot of people out there claiming that they are Christians as well. Think about it. If you were a doctor, and somebody went around calling themselves a doctor while simutaneously killing patients left and right, and poisoning the towns water supply (any similarities to persons living or dead is entirely co-incidental) it might give doctors a bad name. Its the same for Christians.
We believe we have something good to offer the world, medicine of sorts, but there are so many people out there killing people, and poisoning their opinion of Christians that it is hard to reach everyone. They don't trust us.
Thats tragic. Imagine that you have a disease that is going to kill you, but that there is a doctor who has a proven cure for it, 100% effective. But, your local doctors have been so busy poisoning the water supply that you don't trust doctors at all, and you never go and see this doctor, and end up dying.
Don't mistrust all Christians just because the ones you have seen are not trustworthy.
Feel free to leave a note for me, and I'll try and answer any questions you might have. Failing that, wait a few days and I might write some more.
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