Grey or Black and White

The problem with teaching simply behavior modifications is it doesn’t get to the actual issues. The actual actions aren’t the core of sin. We sin in our minds first. Dressing up the outside while the inside is a mess is simply stupid. It’s like putting duck tape on a cracked sealing. The drip might stop for a while but the water keeps seeping in and eventually the entire sealing will come crashing down.
You and I put on this act. Make sure everyone on facebook knows I’m a Christian. Make sure I pray when others are around. Make sure I announce all my good deeds to the rest of the world. Then, we are ready to judge everyone else. This person does this wrong or that wrong. Someone who is divorced, gay, etc comes up to the Eucharist and we say ohh Father you know this one or that one. #1 it’s none of our business and #2 we are not to judge and ridicule. That is not our job or even the job of a Priest.
See, sins are different for everyone. Like life, they aren’t black and white. Things may be sinful for me and not for you.
-It’s a sin to steal…not if you’re starving
-It’s a sin to kill…not in just wars, protecting yourself or your home
-It’s a sin for me to have sex with Susie Q but not for her husband to have sex with her
This list could go on forever…
If you get nothing from what I write, take this. The church is for EVERYBODY…Divorce, married, straight, gay, bi, liar, honest, free, addicted, whore, virgin, intellect, retarded, ignorant, theologian etc
How does this apply to you and me today at this moment?
The church isn’t there for us to go on Sunday because our Lord requires us to or there so we can feel self righteous because we went to Mass. It develops a community which is a big part of not only the sacrament of confirmation but our lives. These people are our support group. A video my friend posted said “The church isn’t a museum for good people; it’s a hospital for the broken.”
When our sealing cracks or comes crashing down remember to look to God, look to who God has brought into your life and simply say “help me.”
May you grow in the love of Jesus Christ forever
-Brian