Earn the "Right"

I apologize in advance if this post is not politically correct or if it offends anyone, that is not my intention, this is just what the Lord has been dealing with me on.....

We, as Christians (the body of Christ), need to earn the right to inquire about a persons’ actions and most definitely earn the right to speak into their life. Allow me to unpack this….

I am so tired of us showing “concern” for a persons’ choices we do not have a relationship with; honestly it is nothing more than glorified gossip. How dare we show concern for a persons’ bad fruit and lifestyle choices when first we have not shown compassion. But isn’t it so much easier to gossip than to get our hands dirty? We have no right judging or confronting if we have not earned the right by building a relationship that can be honoring and trustworthy. But instead of investing in people, we sit on our thrones dictating what sin we will and won’t touch. Honestly, I am talking about “rights” but actually we have no rights, because didn’t Jesus come so that we ALL may be cleansed (which implies we all need it)? But instead, when a brother falls short of our standards, we brush them to the curb until they clean up their act; rather than picking them up, washing them through the spirit of Jesus Christ and walking along side them.

Heaven help us, the body of Christ, the place for broken and dirty people, not people who are already fixed and clean. Are we so far removed from our own filth and brokenness that we forget who and what the cross was for?

Do we confront sin? Absolutely, but if we want that confrontation to be received in love; we have to first be love, be compassion, be Jesus with skin on. Therefore, earn the right to do so.