"The Church Is Not A Museum For Saints, But A Hospital For Sinners."

"The church is not a museum for saints, but a hospital for sinners."

-Morton Kelsey

What many modern Christians don’t understand is that when Jesus talks about “giving to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s” is a direct condemnation of political systems and their affiliation with the Kingdom of God.

Just like in Roman times, Jesus wants to warn us that God’s love should never be co-opted by partisan power and government control.

"On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness."

-Matthew 7:22-23

Here's your reminder that Biblical scripture is not a customizable template awaiting your feelings and individual bias to fill in the lines. You can claim to commit murder or any other atrocity "in the name of Jesus," but just know that those will be His words to you on Judgement Day.

Stop forming baseless opinions and begin opening up your heart and mind to His perfect teaching.

Amen. A clear sign that someone is cruel, immature and close minded is when you're opening yourself up to them and telling them about a certain delusion or hallucination you have... and they respond with some sort of sarcastic quip CONFIRMING that delusion or hallucination. If someone you love does this, they're either insensitive, ignorant or they do not love you back.

Some of yall know absolutely nothing about hallucinations and I highly encourage you to do some research on it. And I do not mean the once off hallucinations, I mean hallucinations that some people have regularly.

Not putting a diagnosis label on it because many different disorders will have hallucinations and I don't have any answer for my own at this time.

When it comes to visual hallucinations I do not know that I'm hallucinating a lot of the time, most of the time I'll be having what is seemingly a normal conversation with someone to me and no one understands this.

Also telling someone that is experiencing hallucinations that you can hear or see it aswell is so cruel and in no way funny

Im sick of no one bothering to do any sort of research on this and just calling me crazy

Amen. Traditional church is an outdated and Old Testament concept. We don't need a massive gathering or a priest to reach God; He is eternally reaching out to US day to day, hour to hour in our everyday lives.

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

[ID: A chart captioned, “Sad and queer? Look on the bright side!” The chart is divided into two columns: “instead of (x)”, “say (y)”. The “instead of” column gives the examples, “I’m clinically depressed. My tiny hometown is a hell hole. I am full of existential terror. My friends are all moving on but I’m not and I’m terrified I’ll be here forever. I have one million mental illness and a genetic predisposition to addiction, which is a bad combination.” In response to all of this, the right column says to say, “This would make a great folk punk song.” End ID.]

(thanks to @vernalloy for the ID <3)