The View From Outside

Picture this; you're just walking along after grocery shopping, and there's a barefoot teen ahead of you, he's mumbling to himself; a little bit weird. Then he begins to laugh, and you think he must be deranged or something. Then he just strokes his foot on the ground a few times. What a weird child. Yea, that child was me. Let me explain:

Well, to start off with, lets cover this; I don't particularly like wearing shoes. The other day I was walking along, kind of thinking and praying aloud, I realised there was a guy behind me, and being the irrationally-fearful-watched-too-many-CSI-shows type of guy that I am, my mind immediately jumped to a wild conclusion and I was left thinking 'I want my last words to be about Jesus.' And then I realised what I had just thought and began to laugh at myself. After a while a stone got caught in my foot. Yes, IN my foot. So I just rubbed my foot along the ground a couple of times to get it out.

Now, while that may not have been the most interesting story, it does actually have a point. See, to me, what I was doing seemed perfectly logical to me right?? But to him, it just wouldn't have made any sense. Well, I feel as though Christians often seem like the crazy rambling guy (me) in the story. People look into the church, and they hear confusing words & concepts being chucked around like, predestination (the word for God planning out every second of every day,) a perfect God loving an imperfect people, evangelism (telling people about Jesus) and I'm sure there are heaps of others. And the outcome is generally either confusion, or a feeling of exclusion.

Now, people who don't know Jesus, don't be turned off Christianity by Christians.

And Christians; EMPATHISE. Think about how you would be feeling after hearing these words for the first time. And then act on your empathy.

GAH, I really don't feel like I've got my point across very well. But I hope you understand.