A preacher stands before his congregation and announces that his divorce has been finalized. He asks to not be judged and admits the error of his ways. He says it simply didn’t work and the details are between him and God. Later he announces that he is not only newly divorced, but also he is now engaged to another woman. Does this surprise you? More than likely it does because this isn’t something people expect out of a man of God. However, Does this make him a bad person? Any less of a Christian?
A young woman and her fiancé go to church every Sunday. They also participate in weekday church events. The couple finds out they are expecting a child. This is not what you might expect from a churchgoing couple, right? Does this make them bad people? Are either of them any less of a Christian?
To answer all the above questions: no. People often have the misconception that if a person is a die-hard Christian; going to church every chance, reading the bible, and preaching to others; then they have no sins. This isn’t true. In the bible it is said that everyone sins. This means no one is perfect, including the churchgoing Christians. Sinning does not necessarily make you a bad person. We are expected to sin: ask for forgiveness and our sins will be forgiven. So, churchgoers are not perfect and should not be expected to be.
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I think your purpose is well developed. I also think that you have established that you have an audience. I think you should elaborate a little more and lengthen your paper, but it's a good essay overall.
ReplyDeleteThe examples were supported good through out this paper, but you need to revise and make some changes to the punctuations in this eeasy. The development was great, yet the oranization was more like a survey.
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