Stereotypes. I get it. Kinda.

We've all profiled someone based on how they dress, talk, walk... 

Sometimes, it's good to do that. I get it. We need to be aware of our surroundings for our safety.

What I don't get is putting someone in a specific category based on their hair cut, their tattoos, their braces, their sense of style.

Why do we as a society accept the Jock and the Cheerleader but turn our heads to the hippie or the biker?

Given the stereotypical reputation of jocks and cheerleaders, (saying this knowing my husband and I were these things) we see that they party, have sex, smoke pot, make bad grades...

AS WELL AS THE STEREOTYPE FOR BIKERS, TATTOO ARTISTS, REDNECKS, FRAT BOYS.

So why is one group of SINNERS accepted and the others are not?..

As a church we turn a blind eye to people because they are different. We think they are lost, or broken, or full of hate and dark nasty sins, when maybe they just like that style.

Maybe they are a better Christian than you.

We wouldn't know because they aren't wearing Chacos and comfort colors. So we don't talk to them.

Instead. We judge them.

We all fight the same demons. Some have been exposed. Some people get caught. Some hide it away.

We are all sinners.

John 3 17.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

And if the whole point in the Gospel is to be Christ like and spend the word of Salvation.... why are we condemning instead of accepting?

With All That I Am,

Kathryn.