Who do we think we are

I was just thinking about the nature of God's love and comparing it to our own nature.

I was in a supermarket the other week, and there was a young lady walking about with her kids, music blaring from a mobile, talking so loud that everyone could hear her conversation, dressed as chavs with rollerskate trainers and fashion conscious names like chelsea and britney. I was embarrassed, why?
I see road users that don't think of others, whether it effects me or not, why do I get so angry.
Youths in the high street the other day, swearing as I walk past, no respect.
The person walking out of somewhere, who has to stop in my way to light up a cigarette, because they could not wait a moment longer, as if.

I have been a too loud, fashion conscious (supposedly), road raging, chain smoking, swearing person. What have I become. A person that looks at others and judges.

Is the church ready for all of the above and more, without judging. Has the church become so middle class that we cannot relate to anybody in the real world, have we lost our salt or scarily worse, do we put our faith out of reach of those who desperately need it.

How would any church react on a Sunday morning, to a loud chav, a disrepctful youth, an angry chain smoker, how about to loads of kids who had never set foot in a church and ran around out of control, or someone off their heads on something we have never heard the name of, or a prostitute battered and bruised from a hard nights work.

We expect. People should have respect, they should know, they should................Why?

Jesus hung about with prostitutes and thieves. He saw them as people. Full stop.

It is time to get over what we know and start listening to the one who knows.