Recently 11 baseball players from various major league teams were placed on suspension for using an illegal substance (human growth hormone). These men made a bad choice, they broke the rules of baseball. Everyone makes bad choices in their lives and sometimes those choices affect others.
Does this scandal ruin baseball? Of course it doesn't, because baseball depends on teams, not individuals. An individual can break the rules in baseball, and though that choice can affect others, it doesn't ruin the whole. People can still enjoy baseball.
The same can be said of Christianity. All Christians are held to the same"rules", which we refer to as the Word of God. But like those baseball players, sometimes Christians do not play by the rules....we bend the Word or twist it or change it completely so it conforms to what we want it to be instead of what Jesus intends it to be.
Christianity is also about teamwork. Jesus referred to us as His brothers and sisters. As a team, we are supposed to work together and help one another - not to win the World Series or the Superbowl, but something much greater - to one day be together in heaven.
Yes, sometimes individual Christians break the rules (go against the Word of God), but it doesn't ruin the whole of Christianity anymore than a few individual baseball players breaking the rules ruins the game of baseball. It's an awful thing to go against the Word of God, it injures us, those we wronged and certainly hurts God, but it doesn't ruin Christianity. For that I am eternally grateful.
Just something to think about.
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