“I love your Jesus. I just don’t see many Christians who look like him.” Ghandi said that to E. Stanley Jones, a famous Methodist Missionary, many years ago. It was a prophetic statement because a large percentage of people in our world today feel just like Ghandi.

United Methodist minister Martin Thielen writes about a good friend who stopped going to church. He was going through a bitter divorce and just stopped attending worship. He didn’t want to answer all the questions from others and was just going through a difficult time.

This man worked with a judgmental Christian co-worker who observed what was going on in his life.  She started hounding him to attend her church.  She wasn’t really compassionate or empathetic to his struggles.  She just wanted to be sure he got saved and didn’…