Christianity is missing something: Love

"I am not asked to impersonate the Holy Spirit but to live a life that gives off God's fluorescence. And I resolve to remember that God often allows us to learn just as much as we travel our chosen paths as we would have if we had walked only his lighted portions. But wait, we protest, that is like saying that God allows learning even when we go the wrong way. But wait, we continue, now that we think it, that sounds a whole lot like GRACE." 
Sarah Raymond Cunningham

             As i was reading the 5th chapter in the book Unchristian by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, I stumbled upon this quote. The book is about how people outside the church perceive people inside the church and why it matters. Each chapter focuses on a label that christians have gotten like political, judgmental, hypocritical, old-fashioned and so on. This chapter focused on anti-homosexual. It struck me incredibly as I realized more and more that Christians have a serious issue with loving people. And that sounds so back word even as I type that but we do. Christ was sent to earth to die for broken people. He gave us grace so that no matter what we have done we can still find life in HIm. 


" The Bible is clear: homosexual practice is inconsistent with Christian discipleship, But there is not a special judgment for homosexuals, and there is not a special righteousness for heterosexuals. For all of us, our only hope for the fracture in our soul is the cross of Christ" -Shayne Wheeler

            I believe whole-heartily in this statement. Everyone is a sinner, including myself, and that is why I am so thankful for Christ and His redeeming grace. God loves everyone! and if you are a Christian and believe otherwise I would highly suggest re-reading your Bible, especially Matthew 22:37-39, which says, "Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'LOVE your NEIGHBOR as yourself." We, this generation of Christians, have the power to change the worlds perceptions of what it is to be a Christian. Let's live a life devoted to being Christ-like, which includes loving everyone, the girl in our class who talks bad about us, the bullies who pick on us, our gay neighbor, everyone. 

Let's be a generation of faith, of love and not hatred.