Today at work, I was talking with a man who gives guitar lessons. I’ll not reveal his name so we’ll just call him “dude”. Dude had previously told me that he had toured with a well known christian band for a few months. I was like, “WOW! Thats awesome!” After conversing for several minutes on the subject i asked him what the band members were like. He told me, “I really only hung out with the pianist but everyone else was cool I guess.” Then dude let me in on a little not so well known secret. He said, “you’d be suprized what the christian music industry is like.” He then went on to tell me about his experiences inside some recording studio in nashville. I was appaled at the things he told me. . .drug addictions, sexual imorality. . .”It’s a buisness,” he told me. Then he said those three little magical words that take all the blame away. . . “They’re only human.”
In my head I thought,” yeah he’s right.” But on the other hand I thought, “wait, they’re not just human, they are men and women chosen by God to create music to point others to Him.” After accepting Christ, and being baptized, there is no “only human”. . .there is “only God” Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:17 says “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. . .” And James 3:1 “Not many of you should presume to be teachers , my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strickly”
I understand that people sin, no one is perfect, and that eventaully we’re all gonna screw up. But the things he described really got to me. Things that made me loose a lot of respect for certain bands and people. I don’t know these things to be true myself but I am taking dude’s word for it. There are certain things that I should hope that mature Christians would not have to struggle with. I hope and I pray that I would never have to struggle with such things.
Everyday I hear people say things, and I hear people do things, that makes me cringe on the inside. I know that God is working on my heart and He had been for a while now. I’m not sure how I’ll be when He’s finished but I can assure you that I grow tired of the unrighteousness in my life and seek to put an end to it. It makes me wonder if people really believe in the stuff that the pastor says. Cause sometimes I’d rather sleep in on sunday mornings than go to book club too. I am constantly examining my life, and again I seek to do away with all unrighteousness in it. . . .i lost my thought, and i bet the whole blog probably sounds a little conceited and I am sorry for that. I just feel as though God has set a high standard and people think that just because they are christians they have the right to lower that standard, just because they pray everyday. .. .
laterrrrrrrr
gosh it’s sad but true.. I think that we as Christians are held to a higher standard and, like you said, if you are called to ministry then you are held to an even higher standard. .
I suppose we should pray for these people. All of the men and women who are called to be on the front lines.. who daily meet or speak to thousands of people.
I know from my own experience that the closer I get to God the more I need people to pray for me and my ministry. That I would not give in to my sinful flesh but that I would strive for holiness. I know the prayers of my friends and family have helped me through some really rough things in my life..
I think a lot of times we want to excuse our sin by saying that we “are only human”, but what about the depravity of man and our need for Christ. We are going to sin, and mess up like you said, but that does not give us an excuse to go do whatever we want. We are called to a higher standard. We can expect lost sinners to act like lost sinners, but when born again Christians start acting like lost sinners, its time for re-evaluation.