Christian Hypocrisy

I know this is a long post, but I ask that you please read it all. I consider it to be very important. Thank you!

Hypocrisy is a big issue. Especially when it is from one of the major churches in a town. There will not be any names to protect a child and because I do not know all of the names of the adults. If I did know their names I would print them here in large print. They should be ashamed, but I doubt that they are. I do know several members of the church are ashamed of the way the church board has acted and are seriously thinking of leaving.

A young child was molested in this church by an older child several years ago. I have no knowledge of what happened to that older child but I can guess based on what is happening now. It probably did not include any help.

Being molested has obviously left severe emotional scars on the child. The child started acting out in the same manner toward younger children because of how damaged he was and how poorly society has dealt with helping him with his problems. The child has not actually done anything yet, but the good church board members have decided that they can not have their church contaminated by this injured and damaged child.. The told the parent the child is not allowed back to church.

If they had adult supervision things like this could not happen. The first case of molestation should have been enough to open some eyes and see to it that there was supervision. Not so. Children and youth of all ages run free even during the sermon. With out supervision it should be plainly obvious that something else will happen eventually. That is just the way children are.

Are they doing the Christian thing and trying to help the child? NO! They are pushing the child away so it will not be a bother and an embarrassment. Do you think the church board has any idea what Jesus preached? How about “let he who is guilty cast the first stone” for beginners. Who did Jesus say he had come for? The sinners of course! If the church casts the sinners out how will they hear the gospel? The church board seems to be more like the Pharisees who asked the question than the ones Jesus said he came to save. Can you find one place in the Bible where Jesus told a sinner to go away and stay away instead of sharing salvation with them? Of course you can’t because there is no such scripture. I could quote other scripture, but do you really need more?

I know the child and this is not the spawn of Satan. Just a young child who has been injured, confused and in need of help. Instead the church takes the sword of the word, the words out of their mouths, and strikes another possibly even deeper injury. Do you think he will even want to darken the door of a church again? Only if he is wiser and more forgiving than the church board is.

I do know that there will be members of the church who probably will not darken the doors of this church ever again because what has happened turns their stomach. Is it any wonder so many people do not attend church in this country even though they confess to believe in God?