It's a beautiful though very sad poem.

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Thank you.

Sadly, it's what happens when a Christian picks up a Bible, thinks they can be like Jesus to people as some sort of self-pleasing mode of feeling good about themselves (because they're doing a "good work for others"), but then they don't really want to get involved with the people they think they're trying to "save," and instead, they wind up treating those people like trash because they don't think well of those people and don't want them around.

I hate it when Christians go around trying to do "good works" but always keep the people they supposedly love "that much" at arm's length, while letting others be far closer to them just because they weren't trying to evangelize them or whatever.

The way I see it, if someone's going to pick up a Bible and talk about Jesus, they need to be willing to get close to the people they're sharing Him with and treat them, oh, I dunno, LIKE PEOPLE, dare I say, even LOVED FRIENDS, if they're going to go off and claim to love those people anyway. Without that, love just becomes a lie, because there's no real relationship there.

It's nice and easy to hide behind a Bible and taboos about "close relationships" between those who share Jesus and those they are sharing Him with. But if the love was real, it would be just as easy to really be loving towards those people, for real, and not for fake. If the Holy Spirit was really at work there, then love would not be hard. And I now question the sincerity of EVERYONE who picks up a Bible -- even myself. What business does ANYONE have teaching from that Book if they haven't Given themselves completely over to God? And yet, it seems that, in the case of that former friend, no, he had not given himself over to God. He even spoke of that once, as if that was somehow ok or something. Honestly, it's just not.

Anyway, this is what happens when people claim to love God and each other but they don't really. I guess that's all I can say about it, in the end. It's a very, very sad, destructive, unhealthy, selfish thing.

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The only failing of the human spirit is in not knowing Who's you truly are.

UPDATE:

Turns out, I was right in the first place.

Turns out, even the disciples wiped the dust off their feet.

Turns out, I have clean feet.

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The only failing of the human spirit is in not knowing Who's you truly are.