How Can I Trust Christians When So Many Are Hypocritical?

Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Ask Me Anything Podcast, Pastor J.D. answers the question of how to respond to hypocritical Christians.

Show Notes:

* This question is valid. Jesus said he died to create a new breed of people. But so many aren't any different than the world. So how do you handle that?
* First, realize hypocrisy is more about being human than it is a particularly Christian thing.
* Second, hypocrisy doesn’t invalidate the message.
* Lastly, look at Jesus! The church is supposed to adorn Jesus, and it’s tragic when it fails happens; but when they fail you, look at him.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to Ask Me Anything. My name is Matt Love, and I am your host, and I'm here to ask Pastor J.D.
0:25.5	A really, really good question that you may have asked or be asking right now. The question is,
0:30.9	how can I trust Christians when so many are so hypocritical?
0:36.0	Matt, that's a question that a lot of people wrestle with.
0:38.6	Unfortunately, I think it's easy for the world around us
0:41.8	to look at Christians as a whole and say,
0:43.7	honestly, you're not that much better than me.
0:45.6	Why would I follow the God that you claim to follow
0:48.5	who is so much better, so much more glorious
0:51.7	than what I believe in and what I build my life on.
0:56.2	Honestly, Matt, when I hear this question, I'm a little torn just to be totally transparent
0:59.3	because a lot of times that question comes from people who are really speaking slanderously
1:05.1	or at least just with very, just not with a fair perspective um they're just you know they're kind of
1:13.7	believing what what i hate just in mainstream media but they're believing what some stereotypes are
1:18.8	about christians and the reality is it's just not accurate you know i mean christians have always
1:23.5	even in their best even the best Christians Christians have been accused by the world because our
1:28.5	enemy is at work in the world trying to slander the name of Jesus. They get accused. I mean,
1:31.9	the earliest Christians at the time when the church was at one of its healthiest, you know, they
1:36.7	were called atheists and cannibals. Neither of those things were accurate, but it's just something
1:41.3	that our enemy does. And so I'm torn because on one side, I'm like, I don't know if you're responding to a fair picture. Just because you saw that about
1:47.5	Christians in, you know, the media or in a movie doesn't mean that's the way we actually are. And
1:53.0	you have a tendency to latch onto a couple of smaller things and pretend like that defines the whole. But on the other hand, on the other hand, I know
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