Dull Knives...dull Christians?

As a friend and I were cutting up fruit last week, we chatted about cooking and knives, and one of us commented on on how there was nothing more dangerous than a dull knife. It looks like a knife and feels like a knife, but when you go to use it, it slips and is more likely to cut you than whatever you were intending to cut.

As I thought about that, I realized that the same is probably true of Christians, or people who call themselves Christians when we say one thing and live another. We say that we care about people and then turn right around to gossip about them behind their back. We say that God is first, and then hole up in our rooms to study 24/7. We say God loves everyone, and then we judge people for the way that they speak, their sexual orientation, or their religious views.

One prime example would be the Westboro "Baptist Church," a group that has been traveling the country protesting everything from Obama to Canada to Catholicism, and most recently at Columbia's own Jewish Theological Seminary (on Thursday 9/24), Jewish people. Columbia's Intervarsity Christian Fellowship went to counter-protest and wrote this article in the student newspaper:
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/09/28/westboro-exalted-will-be-humbled

It's easy to look at Westboro Baptist Church and ridicule them and denounce them for how ridiculous they are and how much they're hurting people. But when it comes down to it...we are all part of the problem; we all misrepresent Christ. Let us hope, pray, and strive towards a portrayal of Him that is accurate.