Unoffendable

     "Choosing to be unoffendable out of love for others is ministry. And real ministry forces us
      To abandon our relentless search for approval from others"


When did it become about approval for other people? When did it get to the point where you can't talk seriously without someone getting offended. One of the most overly-used ironic phrases, "no offense but...."
When did we get here? Where Christians are "judgmental" and "haters", just because they believe a certain way.
Even to each other, we seem legalistic or judgmental, just because we try to live a certain way? It seems, unless we blend into the world, were judging others...
Why do we get so offended when someone disagrees. Why do we feel judged when a brother or sister talks to us about something out of concern?
What happened to building each other up? Why is support and positivity the only way to encourage and build a person up. What happened to tough love, to counsel, to discipline. If we can't seek guidance and counsel from ourselves or the ones around us, how will we seek it from God.
I want the church of people to be able to talk to each other, to build each other up, to encourage each other to do the right thing, not to speak out of judgment, but to speak out of concern.
I for one want to hear what my fellow followers see wrong in my life. I don't need to be offended, I don't live for approval from men. But for the approval of God.
And isn't that how we are meant to live? Unoffendable. All we do is build arguments against each other. Why we should be able to do one thing and not the other. This life isn't one big list of dos and donts.
This life is about surrendering your own life to God. So all the little dos and donts become clear. You become unoffendable.

This generation doesn't want to hear your opinion, unless it agrees with their own. The only way they show love is if you support them in everything they do, no matter how morally wrong or against God.
If you oppose any aspect of their lifestyle, you're suddenly a hater.

"All day long I have stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."
                                                          Romans 10:21b

But this same generation of Christians needs to stand out, be unoffendable, show the tough love of sacrifice, honesty, and concern. Because if we blend in with the "anti-haters" and avoid the truth out of this so called love, how will they hear?

"How then shall they call on Him in who, they have not believed? And how asphalt they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher?"
                                                                           Romans 10:14


" very few of us debate with the sordid evil and wrong, but we do debate with the good."
                                                            Oswald chambers