christians

our company is here at our house, should be fun to have them here all weekend. delayna is six months pregnant, so we talked pregnants baby stuffs. she's super fun :)

we talked more and more into the night, like 1:00 AM or something. we got on the subject of christians who are "christians" but are worse friends than the devil. i've had problems with this first-hand as of late, thus the new weblog domain, and overall sadness and despair at the depravity of man. we exchanged stories which had similar ends, the christian friend hurt more than one person, refused to admit or stop, and eventually made the person's life (who was the one person who stood up for themselves, others, and for what's right) a living hell.

of course no solutions came out of this discussion, for how can you change someone else, especially someone who doesn't care. it was nice to hear some reminders of God's faithfulness, and someone who had been through a lot of crap but continued their faith in God, and in other christians. it's interesting to me how some people get burned once, write church off and are like "all christians suck" forever. others have it way worse, but choose the high ground and forgive and mostly forget.

i am still surprised how many pastors have really disgusting secretive lives, full of the sin they "preach" so passionately against on Sundays. i know i shouldn't be surprised by now, what with the pot smoking youth pastor, then the sex addict senior pastor, the molesting priest, the embezzling church council... yah. maybe it's not surprise, really, it's disgust. it's annoying because my husband's a pastor, and he's a good guy, doesn't smoke pot, doesn't watch porn and have affairs with young women he's "counseling", doesn't molest small children, doesn't steal money. he loves his wife and prays for his church and is in it for the right reasons.

but i'm sure there are people out there who, like me, have known a constant stream of pastor-losers. in fact the pastors i know who have "fallen" outweigh the number of good, upstanding pastors i've known. i can understand why a person would turn their back on church and christians in bitterness and distrust. i'm also glad to have talked with someone early this morning who trusts God. and has trusted Him to bring good Christians back into her life.