Sunday morning comes around. What do you do? You go to church with your family, you listen to the sermon, then you have a nice family lunch, and come home. It happens every single week. After some time of doing this, maybe you're loving this thing called church or maybe you've noticed how some people are sinning when they call themselves Christian and you don't understand why. You ask questions to yourself only to get unsatisfactory answers.
I know this feeling of frustration with other people and confusion as to why this has happened. I have an answer for you that I never really understood until now.
As Christians, we believe in God and that He is in charge of everything. He even has a plan for our lives so why would He let us make bad decisions?
There is this really great thing called free will. This means we have the freedom to make our own choices. We don't have to follow God's commands. We do not because we are forced to but because we choose to. Without this freedom, there would be less diversity and you wouldn't even get to choose the ice cream flavor you would eat! It would be a very different world.
With this free will, there also comes sin. Sin is anything we do that doesn't glorify God. He may not have said specifically to not do something but that doesn't mean what you're doing glorifies Him.
You might be wondering how this relates to the topic so here it is. Those people that sin and are also Christian, they followed the wrong part of their free will and went against God. They aren't perfect so don't judge them like they are. If you know the person struggling well, maybe you could kindly suggest that what they're doing may be a sin. Sometimes, we sin without even knowing what we're doing is wrong. Other times, we want to stop but don't know how.
The people in your church are not going to be perfect. That's okay. The whole reason we have a church is to work through our sins, struggles, and misunderstandings. This means the people of a church are just working hard to become better people, together. When someone makes a mistake, there are people to help pick them back up again. That is why church is so important. It's not about being perfect but striving to be like Christ.
Bye for now! Kiki!!!