Joel’s Improved Personal Website
I came across another church web site today, with the line “We are not perfect, but Jesus is.” Since when did anyone, inside or outside the church, care about Christians being perfect?
Christians really need to stop using “we are not perfect” as a promotional line. It comes across like a hot dog vendor on the street saying “I’m not a billionaire CEO.” What kind of admission is that? Everyone knows it already.
What would mean something would be if, as a whole, Christians acted as though we knew we’re not perfect, as though we knew we were living in borrowed clothes. There are too many of us arguing too loudly and obnoxiously (under the guise of “contending for truth”) for any of us to be able to use the line “we’re not perfect” with any credibility. We’re already suffering for our own faults; to add “we’re not perfect” is just to rub it in.