Stereotypes In The Church Today

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"Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won't be tossed and blown away by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth." Ephesians 4:4 (NLT) In some ways, we should not be surprised by the behavior and lack of manners shown by some Christians in the church today. Today, we find in church liars, backbiters, gossips, and other detestable behaviors that wouldn't make God happy. Too many of us forget that the church isn't the building, but the people who worship in there are. We often think that the building is what God cherishes the most, and miss the point of what it is for. Many self-proclaimed followers of Christ do not fully understand what they're to be doing as Christians, and so they get tangled up focusing on everything but God. They become distracted and diverted away from what they've been called to do. The devil is a cunning and crafty being that shouldn't be joked with. When it comes to his attack against believers, the devil doesn't need any over-the-top sin to impede our walk with God. All he needs is to distract us in the form of gossiping, keeping malice, or any other little sin. …show more content…

Take that away, and you probably won't be able to differentiate a worldly Christian from an unbeliever. As a result of the attitude of some of these set of Christians, the church is being ridiculed. When outsiders come into our churches and find some of these attributes, how are we to convert them when all they see in the church are behaviors and attitudes not attributed to God? When we have believers that are "tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching", how are we supposed to defend our faith? I'm certain that this is not what God wants for His

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