Churchgoer & non-church goer (Both Christians)
When I write this I am not speaking from personal experience directly but through the observations and stories of many in which I choose to consolidate and summarize all of it here. I have had this on my mind for months, and I guess I decided to write it now (gee ya think?) Now you get this debate going on for decades in people complaining about problems within a church. What I want to attempt here is try to show you two sides of the coin in which the end goal in my opinion should be simple nonetheless not necessarily easy. I have friends who get frustrated and pissed when they hear people " dissing " the church for they understand that is not right. On the other hand, I have friends whose lives have been pacified, neutralized , ruined by the church and eventually seeking Christ in other areas. So now both sides are not off the hook here. Let us begin with the latter. When someone criticize the church and all it's wrong doings, claiming things like, they are judgme...