“Evil people and imposters will become worse (in the last days), deceiving and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).
Can we talk about imposters?
Specifically church-dropouts who say they love the Lord.
Nothing of what follows is intended to be mean-spirited. I will labor to make certain it doesn’t come across that way.
I’m not angry, just perturbed. I don’t want to banish anyone from heaven, from church, from “the island,” or even from this room.
I just want to say to certain ones, “C’mon, people. Get real. You don’t mean that, so why do you keep saying it?”
I was in a group which was having a lively discussion about church leadership and whether divorced people–specifically someone with a whole cluster of divorces!–should be considered as deacon.
Most in the room were sweet-spirited, godly, well-informed scripturally and solid doctrinally. But some were angry for reasons I doubt if even they know. They want to banish all divorced people from anything. But they are not the hypocrites I had in mind. It’s another group.
People like you are the reason I no longer go to church.
That’s what they say.
And they are my candidate for “hypocrites of the year.”