Christians Will Fail You

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“Christians will fail you, religious leaders will fail you, organizations aren’t perfect, put your faith in God.” - Pastor Medina

I thought that was a great point people need to hear. Your decision to be a believer/Atheist/Agnostic should not be based on the followers of a particular faith, not their words, not their actions, not the organization of the place of worship. If you don’t believe in a higher power, God, or organized religion that’s fine. You have every right to live your life the way you see fit, and you shouldn’t be judged for it. Now, if you’re going to say you don’t like a particular religion I hope you made that decision after you read it’s religious text, and looked into it’s history. Not because you bumped into someone who calls them self a Christian, Buddhist etc. and you didn’t like how they were living their life. 

Ideally our actions, the way we carry our selves, should reflect our religion/spirituality, but we’re not perfect, and that’s rarely the case. 

Recently, I left the church I’ve been attending all my life, for a variety of reasons. Some of which I might share with you at another time. I am now attending a different church. My point? The turmoil going on in my first church didn’t deter me from Christianity. I tried my best to make the most out of a bad situation, to give my part and try to improve the environment, and eventually made the very difficult decision to leave my second family and seek out a place that better suited my spiritual needs. 

My decision was based off of what I know Christianity to be, had I based it on my fellow believers at the time, I’d be sleeping in on Sundays, and missing out on some pretty amazing services, and people at my place of worship now.

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Had I the opportunity to write down exactly what I wanted and needed in my absolute best friend, I couldn't have come up with a better description. God must have looked into my heart, listened to every desire, every yearning, took note of every need, and picked you specifically for me. Each moment spent with you feels right, as if it's been written since the beginning of time. Every second without you is spent basking and rejoicing in the joy you've given me. You may not know what's to come, but I couldn't be more sure. There are no coincidences in life.

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There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via observando)