Episode 2 - Hypocrisy Within the Church
Episode description
Hypocrisy in the church and self righteous attitudes
Everyone in the church is a hypocrite by nature - all believe things we can’t be perfect about.
Per Jesus, teaching, we need to focus on our own sin, not worry about everyone else’s struggles *1
Hy·poc·ri·sy - /həˈpäkrəsē/ - noun:
1.The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense *2
- “Josh McDowell quotes statistics that 60% of Christian men are viewing porn.
- A Christian missions agency reports that 80% of new applicants admit to viewing porn. They no longer ask “if,” but “how often.”
- One youth minister estimated that 90% of the kids who come to him for help, all who are from Christian families, are addicted to porn.
- 21% of Christian girls admitted to texting a sexually explicit picture of themselves.
- 50% of pastors regularly view porn” *3
Scripture References:
Matthew 7:3-5 (NIV)
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye’, when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Matthew 5:27-28 (CSB)
“You have heard that it was said, Do not commit adultery. But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
Matthew 18:20 (CSB)
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them”
Bonus Scripture:
Hebrews 10:25 (CSB)
“Not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching”
1.We are not advocating that two wrongs make a right. We are simply stating that porn addiction is just as wrong as anyone else’s sin.
2. Oxford Dictionaries
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