I used to feel that way too.....until I realized that church wasn't about getting what "I" need or want...but a place where I could give to others......whether it be prayer, ministering or comfort.
I am wary of judging people's hearts by the way their outside looks. Some of the most godly people I know....sport leather, tattoos and drive harley's. My take on Tammy Faye and Jan Crouch with all their makeup...is that they never came out of the 60's. Everyone wore the eyelashes, big hair and gawdy stuff back then. Some recovered, some didn't. :)
I used to feel that way too.....until I realized that church wasn’t about getting what “I” need or want...but a place where I could give to others......whether it be prayer, ministering or comfort.
I respect your viewpoint on this.
My girls take piano lessons in a slightly seedy MA city. Each week we stop at Dunkin' Donuts. Last week a man, sitting alone, struck up a conversation with us. "That's what it's all about man. A father and his daughters sharing some donuts together." He was sad because his wife had left him for another man, and moved out of state. He said he didn't want to battle over custody because "a child should have a mother and father." He was obviously heartbroken.
Three weeks ago a tough biker-looking guy offered to buy some donuts for my girls. He wouldn't take no for an answer. He even bought them milks. Then he said, "Girls, do a good deed every day."
All I could think of was, "Blessed are the poor..."
I agree. We do not have the ability to truly judge the whole of a person. Each of us has strong points and weaknesses - many of them due to genetic makeup, others due to life experiences and some just due to flaws in our mental abilities.
God sees the “why” some things are hard for one and not the other. God sees the life experiences causing our “quirks”, so only God can truly judge.
Man judges on man’s view knowing only a tenth of the whole.
And we cannot judge the heart - but God knows the heart.
My thinking as well. I put my faith in the spiritual, and take everything in the natural with a grain of salt. But I don’t allow hypocrites to keep me from church or from worship.