Often people in the Church will claim some virtue which they do not possess or claim to be doing something which others are doing.
This is self-deception.
It is the feel good factor of the Church.
And they will defend it with their lives.
If you challenge them they will turn on you.
The first thing they will do is accuse you of what you have criticized in them.
They become threatening.
This is their fear.
And this merely serves to perpetuate the problems which plague the Churches.
Literalism, legalism, Phariseism, hypocrisy, bigotry, bullying, deceit - all these things persist in the Churches.
And they will continue until the people in the Churches overcome their fears and look honestly at their own efforts.
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