Tonight I was enjoying my friend Brad playing guitar on YouTube live and the trolls started rolling in.. always with the whole thing about Christians being hypocrites. It’s such a boring argument.

First off, trying to group all Christian’s together and form an opinion on generalizations is no better than grouping all people together based or race or anything else. It’s silly, and totally off base. Saying Christians are hypocrites because we sin is like saying patients are hypocrites for seeing a doctor. The whole point of following Jesus is admitting we’re broken and need Him. The church was never meant to be a museum for saints… it’s a hospital for the broken.

Christianity isn’t about pretending to be perfect. It’s about being real enough to say, “Yep, I messed up again, and yep, I still need grace.” That’s not hypocrisy. That’s honesty.

I was still a Christian when I was drunk.

I was still a Christian when I was living in sin and doing drugs.

God didn’t redeem me and take that desire from me because I had it all together. He redeemed me because of my faith.

I still sin. I also struggle deeply with forgiveness.

That’s what grace is. Jesus didn’t come for the polished and the perfect. He came for the broken, the addicted, the hurting, and the lost. He came for me and you.

And here’s something else I’ve noticed. A lot of atheists will bend over backwards to “respect all beliefs” when it comes to other religions, but when it comes to Christianity, suddenly the gloves come off. They’ll tolerate anything except someone openly following Jesus. The moment a Christian stumbles, they pounce on it as if it disproves the whole faith..

It’s a double standard, plain and simple. Christianity gets singled out because we make a truth claim about Jesus. We don’t just say “this is our way.” We say He is the way. That makes people uncomfortable. So instead of wrestling with the message, they attack the messengers. They point at our failures and call us hypocrites, thinking that discredits the gospel. But all it really does is prove exactly what we’ve been saying: people need grace.

And here’s why we keep sharing, even if it offends some. If you saw someone about to die and you had the power to stop it, you wouldn’t just shrug and walk away. You’d warn them, you’d do everything you could to pull them out of danger. That’s exactly how Christians feel about eternity. We don’t speak up because we think we’re better than anyone. We speak up because we believe hell is real, heaven is real, and Jesus is the only way to be saved.

So no, my sin doesn’t make me a hypocrite. It makes me human. What makes me a Christian is knowing where to run when I fall, and that’s straight to Jesus.