Going From I Hate People to Learning to Love People with Christianity

I am still madly , madly in love with my faith journey and learning so much and growing in my faith so much , and it's just been absolutely incredible Not to say it's without bumps or waves or any of those things . Of course it is . That's a natural part of our journey .

So don't let anyone tell you otherwise , although I don't think anybody is or would tell you that walking the Christian path is an easy one by any means . There's lots of challenges and things that come up in the journey . Right , you already know this . I'm telling you things you already know , which is no surprise because we are just sharing our journey .

I guess I'm sharing my journey and encouraging you to share in the comments If anything that I'm saying is relatable , or if you're going through certain things in your own faith journey that maybe can help somebody else , or that you're just looking for help or maybe just companionship in this journey that we're calling coming out Christians .

So if you don't know already , this is a show for , and by a new Christian . I , as I've said in previous episodes , I kind of went over the whole story , but I'll do it very quickly .

I came to Christianity very late in life I'm turning 52 this month and I finally found my way here , and I think I'm like everybody Everybody in the world , I think , is or has at some point been searching right . We're all searching for something to believe in .

We're searching for love , we're searching for acceptance , we're searching for something to believe in and a purpose for our lives and meaning to our lives . We're all searching for the same things , and I have found my way in my place in Christ , and it is so awesome .

So we , as Christians , are compelled , are told , instructed , to be witnesses for God , for Jesus , and so that is what I get to do , because I have a platform and people are so kind enough to follow my content , and some like it , some don't , and that's okay too , but I've been given this platform and this opportunity to be able to share my faith , and so

that's what I get to do here . I wanted something special and all its own as part of my podcast , so I have the Elsa Kurt Show , which , of course , is my main platform where I do interviews and commentary , and a lot of that actually has to do with political and social topics , the climate that we're in and everything .

But I wanted a special lane for everything that had to do with my growing Christian faith and I wanted to share it with people who were either on the same path or contemplating the same path or need to be on this path , whatever the case is .

Whatever the case is , if this finds its way to you , then there's a good chance that it was meant for you specifically to see and hear . So thank you for being here the other day . As you know , if you know me , everything is the other day . It could have been a year ago , but this one really was the other day . I think it was just yesterday .

I made a video for TikTok . I've been a little lazy on my TikTok videos . I haven't been doing much of my comedic content , so I need to step up my game and get back to it , and I will , because I love doing it . It's a lot of fun .

But I also kind of interspersed my comedic videos with just commentary types of things that pop into my head and that I want to talk about .

And yesterday it came to my mind that I wanted to talk about something that I have , for a very long time , been in the habit of saying and that I am working hard at not saying anymore , not thinking and not saying anymore , like just kind of removing it from my dialogue , basically . And I made that video and I put it out .

It's like a two minute video literally , I think it's like two minutes and six seconds or something like that . And this morning I started walking again .

I've been very , very lazy really , and I have been exercising and I've just been feeling really lousy about myself , and so I finally realized that , well , the only way you can stop feeling badly about yourself , how you look and how you feel , is to do something about it . So I started walking again .

No , no pad on the back here , because it's only day two , this is only the second morning , but , um , I'm just going to walk . That I did that . But what I'm doing on my walks is what I would normally be doing or have normally been doing in my morning .

So my normal morning routine has been I'm up before everybody else and I sit with my coffee in my Bible and or actually , or a podcast , or a Christian podcast like I either listen to , listen or watch Pastor JP , of course , from Solid Rocket Market Common . Or I listened to my home church , which is Emmanuel Baptist , and I listened to Pastor Kerry .

Or I listened to Greg Groeschel I never know if I pronounced his last name right , but he's another pastor that I really enjoy listening to , and you know . So I either read or listen , or I just do something that is Bible based , bible learning based , and so that's been my routine .

So now , of course , I have to change up my routine , because I'm using that quiet time to go for my walk instead of just sitting , and so I did the next obvious thing , which is to just line up my , my phone with my podcast and so I can listen . So that's what I do Long , very long winded , I'm sorry , but that's what I do , and this morning .

So it's like part listening to a sermon or a lesson and part just quietly walking , just kind of listening to my own thoughts , I guess , and the birds and whatever else is going on outside . And this morning it came to me that the thing that I made the video about see , I'm staying on track , guys , I'm doing it .

The thing that I made the video about yesterday for TikTok was actually very much a coming out Christian like episode or that it should be an episode . So we're doing a little preface here so that you know why , why we're going in this direction and I'm not saying like this is the new direction of the coming out Christian series .

It's just a facet of , it's just a part of it , and this is , I guess we're just going to call , call it things I don't know , things that I say I guess yeah , here it is , here it is Coming out Christian things I say and things that I say and there's more to it , but I didn't want to put this big , huge , long , crazy thing on here Things that I say

that I need to stop saying or that I'm working on not saying any longer now that I have this new perspective and new understanding of things . So that's what we're going to get into .

There's probably going to be more than one , because there's certainly more than one thing that I say that I should not be saying anymore and you can probably I don't want to make assumptions , but you can maybe probably relate to that and maybe you don't even know that you're doing these same things that I'm doing and I'm calling you out , but in a really nice

way , hopefully , or hopefully you take it in a nice way that honestly , I'm just trying to , I'm just trying to be helpful , just trying to help and help myself and help you . If this is relatable to you , so I will get , I'll clue you in , I won't keep you in suspense here .

The thing that I have been saying for a very long time is and I'm embarrassed to put it on here , but I'm going to yeah , yeah , I've been saying this for a really really long time and you know what happens when you hear something in your head for so long , you really start to , you really believe it .

You come to believe that that is an absolute truth and , as I've been on my Christian walk , I have been forced to pause and really reflect on that . So that is what this whole little two minute coming up , two more minutes of dealing with me that you'll have to do we don't have to , but you know what I mean . But two minutes coming right up after this .

That's what we're talking about and how I am handling it , or changing it . Here we go . For years , I've had this really bad habit of saying this one phrase , and I am working very hard to no longer say it because it's not true anymore . The phrase is I hate people .

It's a terrible thing to say really , and I know a lot of us say it and it's not really what we mean . We don't really hate people , at least most of us . I'm sure there are people that really do mean it , but I'll only speak for myself . I really don't mean it .

It's not people I hate , it's the actions of people , it's the behaviors of people , and I've gotten in this long term habit of avoiding people , staying away from them , because I just don't want to see or witness any of the things that people do to each other .

But then I became a Christian and the Christian teaching is that to be more like Christ , of course , and that means love God , love people . And I kept resisting that second part because I didn't want to have to put myself in a position of dealing with people . Sounds so terrible .

So , yeah , I'm working on it , I really am , and I'm finding that I am starting , in small doses , learning to love being around people , and it's because of a whole different perspective and of course that's the Jesus perspective , and oh my goodness , what a difference it makes in how you perceive others and how you respond .

So , if you are finding this at all relatable , stop saying I hate people . Just stop saying the sentence . Stop saying it in your head . Stop saying it out loud and change it to I love people . Even if you don't mean it , even if you feel like you're , you don't mean it and you're just saying words . Keep saying it .

You'll start to believe it and you'll start to live it . You'll start to act on that . So there you go , oh , and I love you .