The Mighty JC

I am better than you. I know this because, well, because I am. My nose is held high in the air. My clothes are better, my car is better, my house is better and my faith is better.

Now that I have your attention, NONE of the first statements are true. I not better than anyone else, my nose isn't high in the air, my clothes are just clothes, my car is a car and I live in an apartment. I am not better than you or anyone else. I am me, for better or worse and I am what I am.

Have you ever met someone who thinks they are better than you or even worse knows it in their own mind? I have. I think we all have. I am an avid reader of several Christian blogs. I like all of them equally. What struck me today was the fact that while each of them had a different message, each of them had comments from what I want to call the mighty JC...not the JC you are thinking about either. I am talking about the Judgmental Christian. The one that knows they are better than you, that their faith is stronger and that their belief is the right one. This troubled me greatly because what if a non Christian happened to stumble upon that blog today and see those comments.

I have many friends that are not Christians and many that are. When I have asked some of my non Christian friends what they liked least about Christians many have said The Mighty JC (judgmental christians). When I have asked some of my Christian friends what is the one stumbling block in witnessing to non Christians that you would like to change, the answer is again The Mighty JC.

I think that we as Christians need to think before we speak or comment in these cases. We are all guilty of being the mighty JC at one time or another and many of us don't mean to and some don't realize that they are. We have to be conscious of what we are saying and how we are living because we have to be the example. What example are you portraying? Are you a mighty JC or does the real mighty JC, Jesus Christ, live through you? Peace and God Bless