Some "Christians"

Today I told a kid, "you have some holes in your britches.."

He responds, "yeah Miss Lasley, they are my church pants"

I say, "oh that's nice. some of my favorite pants have holes in them and I wear them to church too."

He comes back, "Miss Lasley... they are holy... get it??.. holy..." then runs off laughing...

But this always gets me thinking about churches. I get so frustrated with some churches and the "rules" they try to enforce. It's simple, love God, and from loving God you love others. That is all He wants from us. I get upset at churches saying you have to wear one thing, or not wear another thing because we have standards, and we don't want to be like the world. I'm sorry to tell you the way you look now is not the same as the way Jesus looked back in the day. And I'm pretty sure when Jesus was teaching people he didn't require or expect folks to look a certain way. So... I can hear it now.. what about the world, it says do not be conformed to this world. Well, I know all about that verse in Romans, and John addresses the "world" in 1st John 2: 15. John makes a point to clarify the world as it's attitudes and values. Do not be like the world in what you value, or be like the world in the attitudes you have about life and other people. So when a church says you need to appear a certain way at church, that sounds to me like an attitude the world would have. You have to look a certain way to be welcomed into this restaurant, or come to our club meeting, or be apart of the cool kids at school. Or when the church says a certain instrument of music is "worldly."  No where does it say something with a lot of beat is "worldly" in the Bible.  It says "praise the Lord"... read psalm 150.  So for me to get excited and jump and  clap and shout something other than "amen" is not a standard in church.. but is okay at a ball game or a race track.  I have to say, some churches are so rigid and so stiff, and so rule oriented, you can't get excited.  Who would want that?  Who would want to be like that?  What person?  One last thing. The world judges you. As a church how are you to judge what is and isn't acceptable. I place my life and standards in being guided by the holy spirit. Truly guided.. not this mess of doing what somebody says to do because that is what "tradition is" or "we can't look like the world." When you say that... you do...

Sometimes "Christians" are the worst. I personally get judged more by most "Christians" than non-Christians.