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Dwight L. Moody once said, “Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.” When you look at today’s headlines about Christians in the news and the rhetoric around Christianity on social media, that’s a sobering thought.
Hypocrisy might be the greatest stumbling block that gets in the way of people coming to Christ. We see it when news stories about ministry leaders blow up on the internet in an instant. It’s evident when unbelievers unite easily around morals like “peace” and “tolerance” while Christians fight with pointed fingers and weaponized Bible verses over what living those morals looks like. Accounts of historically significant Christians like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield holding hypocritical views of slavery make the news, too.
We’re all prone to hypocrisy, like it or not. As we seek to live genuine, humble lives that actually reflect Christ to unbelievers, we’ll do well to be mindful of where hypocrisy particularly tempts us.
Here are three kinds of hypocrisy we’re especially prone to, and some book
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