Hypocrites

Matthew 9:11-13

11 But when the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with such scum?”
12 When Jesus heard this, he said, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do.” 13 Then he added, “Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: ‘I want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.’ For I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”

Sometimes when I invite people to visit the church I attend, the excuse comes back like-"why would I go there? They're all hypocrites!"Unfortunately, the impression that is portrayed all around us is that "Church folk" all sit around singing Cum-by-ya and condemning everyone else.

Well, consider the following from the Eastlake blog- "...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" and "...it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick."

I told my friend that lots of people show up at church every week in a broken spiritual condition, quite often of their own doing. Just as it's easy to be cynical about self-inflicted issues at the hospital--especially when the cure is already known, it's easy to be cynical about the spiritually broken--especially if we've already worked past a particular sin issue in our own lives.

Jesus purposely put himself in the midst of people for the purpose of saving them. As soon as I get the idea that broken people aren't worth my time because they're in deep messes of their own doing, I find myself way off base. There will never be a shortage of people making mistakes, and it's up to those of us who have been saved from sin by God's grace to point others toward a path of spiritual health and wholeness in Christ.