Why Are There So Many “Bad” People in Church?

http://www.pravoslavie.ru ^ | 04 / 03 / 2015 | Denis Akhalashvili

[OrangeHoof]

Plus, the church is often where you find people after they’ve discovered how badly they can mess up their own lives thinking that they didn’t have to listen to God’s Word. I ask myself why churches seem to have more old people than young ones and this is why. As you age, you realize how limited you are and how much you need divine help. The young often have to figure this out the hard way first before they pay attention.

[MeganC]

Just like you don’t need to see healthy people in a hospital you don’t need to see sinless people in church.

[Alex Murphy]

Could It Be...? SATAN!!!

[thirst4truth]

How can you grow and be well with God? Read His Word. Far too many church goers, spend one or two hours with God a week, how sad. Open the book, read His words, they are the spiritual food that is needed to nurture that new life inside.

We are all sinners and not good enough, the last perfect man on this earth got up and got out of here a long time ago!

[PoloSec]

"there is none good but one, that is, God."

[elhombrelibre]

Just as sick people need to go to the hospital to get well, just as there are lots of other sick people there, sinners need to go to Church. They need to repent and reconcile themselves to God.

[elcid1970]

“I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?”

Sounds like a belief in karma. Hearing that a bad person has come to grief, some observe that `karma’s a b!tch’.

Not unlike Schadenfreude.

[BlackAdderess]

Kinda makes the caste system make sense.

[bad company]

One thing I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?

That's a people that don't read the bible thing. Having traveled from Evangelical protestant to Eastern Orthodox, I have found it lurking everywhere.

[bad company]

Sounds like a belief in karma.

Exactly, and by extension a disbelief in God.

[fungoking]

Like my grandma use to say, “you don't want to go to church because there are so many hypocrites, you really aren't going to like hell.”

[discostu]

The concept of eternal forgiveness is a powerful tool for hypocrites. If you’re in the market for excuses to monger confession and being “saved” are perfect for you.

[Biggirl]

Remember Jesus calls sinners.

[Biggirl]

But you do need the fellowship of other Christian believers as well. That is also said in the Bible. Hebrews.

[taxcontrol]

There are just as many bad people in Church as there are outside of Church.

For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

[Biggirl]

AMEN!

[PieterCasparzen]

One thing I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?

I suggest studying the Book of Job for answers on that topic. Job is far richer in meaning than it may appear on the surface. The Matthew Henry Bible Commentary is a good place to start for studying it.

[rwa265]

One thing I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?

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I believe that is an Old Testament thing.

[Iscool]

Cause that’s where all my friends are...

[MosesKnows]

Why Are There So Many “Bad” People in Church?

Where should they be/

Church is not a rest home for saints. Church is a hospital for sinners.