unShocking
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Two parts of my life collided recently: first, I ran across this story about the pastor who wrote the worship song, “Healer,” but actually lied about having cancer, and second, I just finished the third chapter of the book, unChristian, which talks about hypocrisy in the church. The result of the collision? I realized that even though people in churches are shocked by a pastor who would lie for 2 years about having cancer, for the most part the people we want to reach with the gospel are not. Sadly, according to the research quoted in unChristian, unbelievers have come to expect nothing more than this from churched people. Wow. We’ve actually succeeded in lowering the standards that Jesus fought so hard to raise.
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Paul Jenkins is lead pastor of The Gathering, a community church located in beautiful downtown Albemarle, North Carolina. He's the author of God is My Air Traffic Controller and My Name's Not Lou. Paul is passionate about his wife, his 3 children, running, reading, coaching, leading people who are following Jesus, Swedish Fish and the Carolina Panthers.
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