Hypocrisy

I personally would rather have people act honestly, even if that means they act worse. It's hard to address a problem if you can't tell that its there. I think it's one of the problems that children growing up in the church, who have been surrounded by Christianity their whole lives, struggle with. They act like good Christians because they equate that to being a good kid, while the whole time, they haven't actually accepted Christ as their savior. No one in their life can deliberately tell if there is something wrong with their faith because they say the right things at the right time and meld in with the background. So many parents are distraught when their college student strays away from the church after they leave the house, but if their faith can't stand out on its own, then it wasn't their faith in the first place. They were just using their parent's faith and never made it their own.

The music director in my theater program at church always asks, if we are going to make a mistake, to make a big one. That way she can hear it, and help us fix it. Sometimes I think that hypocritical Christians need to make big mistakes, almost as a cry for help to the rest of the church. If the church never knows that there is something wrong with you, then how are they going to know you need help?