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Originally Posted by notofworks
I asked for permission to share this, but it was a thunderous statement to me. I think all of us, if we're honest, have struggled with our faith, and if not, with religion and it's ugliness in general. When I think of the journey that has led me to the place I am, it amazes me.
So I was trading emails with "Michlow" and she said this....
"But I would much rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I'm not!"
WOW!!!! I think that's where I finally arrived, where it was more important to "Be free to be me", rather than trying to please a system and/or people that I never could really please anyway.
Thanks Mich!!! You put a 45 minute sermon into one sentence!!
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NOW, that statement is AWESOME!!
The greatest doom to Christianity is hypocrisy. If we can't be real, the World has no hope.
People mistake being real with being evil. I'm sorry, but that's just not the case. Being real means you SEE the evil and the FAILURE of man, and understand that mercy is our greatest need.
Jesus called those who were not themselves, Blind Hypocrites. I'd rather beat my chest in honesty about my sin, than to claim I've got Holiness figured out.
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