Practice what you preach

What we believe should affect how we behave. I cannot call myself a Christian and ignore that fact. I believe the reason a lot of people have misconceptions about Christ and the bible is because far to many people that have called themselves christians conformed themselves in their appearance on the outside to the "christian" expectations of the concesus view of the church they were in. Unfortunately most churches don't accurately portray who Jesus is, and or what a christian should be. They begin to think that because they are outwardly conformed, that they are fine when they are in fact inwardly conformed to the things that Jesus is against. This is the case with most of the hypocritical pastors and christians that many of my friends and people I know exptremely dislike and see their obvious hypocrisies. Like the christian church promoting slavery for example. Since this problem is so prominent in the world and this country. Our president for example. I understand why so many have an misconception of what a christian is or what they believe. And, when you see so many people who call themselves Christians, do horrible things, why would you want to learn more about their religion.

I wish that everyone could know and understand the nature of God and how he wants his believers to live, the best way for me to explain are these words in Galatians 5:22-23, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. If all christians held to those standards there wouldn't be any christian hypocrites.