Also known as Narcissistic Christianity
Christians always say things such as “you have to see me how God sees me.” “Can’t nobody but God judge”. “Can’t hold the past against me. If God doesn’t judge me, you can’t judge me.”
Please take your selective perspective elsewhere. Do you see everyone else the way God sees them? Or only when it benefits you? Probably not. These are the same people that will cut someone out of their life who they think are toxic in a heartbeat.
A few things to notice about human kind since some individuals are holding mere humans to the standard of God now:
1) I’m not God, I am a human, I see you according to how you treat me, and God given grace allows me to see beyond just the actions.
2) You’re not entitled for mankind to respond to you in the way that God sees you. Most times, you won’t be seen that way. That’s a part of what makes God’s love and promise so special. If you want the world to treat you according to what God spoke to you, that’s called entitlement and validation seeking. You are all of those things, even if no one treats you like it.
3) Make sure that if you want people to see you the way God sees you, that your actions reflect it. You can’t act one way and expect people to see you another way, that’s called narcissism.
I’m tired of these entitled Christians who lack empathy, humility, humbleness, who expect the world to operate from their point of view.
God said there will be no condemnation for those in Christ, He never promised no consequences. He also never promised no judgment or lack of accountability. The very nature of God is correction. You don’t get to determine the consequences of your mistakes. Accountability means, someone might actually be impacted by what you do.
He never said mankind will forget your mistakes, He promised that He will. Once you are upset or frustrated that humans are not giving you the grace God gave you for your mistakes, it’s because you’re looking for validation. Grace and forgiveness are gifts by God, not requirements. They are choices by humans.
To walk around thinking your life will not require any damage control is incredibly damaging and a false sense of God. The grace of God should make you grateful, humble, human, and in awe, not prideful, hurtful, dismissive, invalidating, and demanding.
Let’s remove this surgence of entitled Christians. Let’s bring back this idea of accountability.
I can most certainly understand the other side of things. No one, and I mean no one, has the right to make you feel unlovable, like you’re the trash of the Earth, like you are undeserving of humanity because of your mistakes. However, people can definitely feel that way about you if you’ve hurt them bad enough, and though it absolutely sucks, that’s their right. They just are not allowed to mistreat you because of it. That’s God’s grace. Your actions, again, still have consequences.
Let’s also remember, Jesus says in the Bible that you will be judged according to how you judge others. If you judge others harshly, you will be judged accordingly (Matthew 18:21-35).
One of the ten commandments is “love your neighbor as you love yourself.” If you’re requiring people to forgive so much of you, according to the Bible, you should also forgive and forget. Usually people demanding forgiveness struggle with it themselves.
This type of Christianity falls into New Age thinking, which is exhaultation of self mixed with the parts of Christianity that leave out accountability, humbleness, and conviction.
I think we need to get our hearts right before deceit continues to create a generation lacking truth and entitled, narcissistic Christians.
Tell me if you’ve encountered Entitled Christians. I’d love to hear your stories.
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