The other night, we had a great discussion about all the things that bother us in Christianity. Honest Christians will admit this list is quite long. The hypocrisy of our brothers. Our own failure to behave as we know we should. The existence of evil in a world made by a perfect God. The non-return of Jesus after almost 2000 years despite the Bible telling us it will be sudden and soon. Unanswered prayer. The prosperity of false teachers. There’s no shortage of things to frustrate a thoughtful Christian.
But what should we do, given these tensions and the intellectual suffering they cause? Those who reject Christianity sometimes seem to think that only they have realized such problems. But all the Christians I know acknowledge them, too. So why do we stay? Because we love Him too much to leave.
In this way, our faith is like marriage. The difference between a person who divorces and a person who does not is rarely a matter of the problems in the relationship. It’s just that those who stay choose to honor love and commitment. Marriages that survive don’t do so because the conflicts and frustrations are smaller. They survive because the love and commitment of the spouses is greater.
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