True Christianity: Imperfect People Striving for Perfection
Falling short
It comes with the territory. No one likes to advertise their imperfections, but accepting the teachings of the Son of God requires first admitting our own sinfulness. Jesus came preaching repentance as the first step of His gospel message (Mark 1:15). He also said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance” (Mark 2:17).
- Becoming a Christian requires adopting God’s commandments as your own standards—standards you know you’ll struggle to reach.
- Becoming a Christian requires picking up the pages of God’s Word and saying, “This is right”—and then looking deep within your own heart and saying, “I’m not.”
- Becoming a Christian requires knowing that who you are is not who you want to be—knowing that the final goal is always just ahead, that repentance and change and growth are processes requiring a lifetime of effort, not just a weekend.
Christians fail. Christians have shortcomings. Christians, from time to time, make terrible decisions and awful mistakes, because Christians aren’t Christ. They are flawed human beings trying to follow in the footsteps of a perfect God, and no one can do that without tripping from time to time.