c-e-salazar:

I have found it much easier to admit to myself both my flaws & also whatever other character traits may lend themselves as attributes to the person that I am. & in that regard, I have to admit that while I believe wholeheartedly in the divinity & sovereignty of Jesus Christ, I find it very hard sometimes to connect to other believers, because so many seem to lack any real substance to their personalities, perhaps buried somewhere deep beneath the archaic & idealistic image of what a believer should be, or maybe beneath the mountains of regurgitated rhetoric they pretend to offer a world in need of a Jesus that is much more real & tangible than the tooth-fairy version served up to folks with real questions to real problems & real consuming voids in their lives. I don’t pretend to have all the answers, but I think that before we pat someone on the back & leave after saying “Jesus loves you,” “this too shall pass,” or “I will pray for you,” maybe we should remember to actually give a crap about people. Jesus wept for Lazarus, even though He had the power to bring him back from the dead. How much more should we weep with & for our friends, whose circumstance we may not be able to fix, but whose burdens we can certainly share. (Galatians 6:2)

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