I came across this article recently and thought it was very good.  It’s about how we always compare ourselves to others in unrealistic ways and how this happens especially to people when they look at others on Facebook.  The article then goes on to say how the same thing happens in churches.

Nobody is as happy as he seems on Facebook. And no one is as “spiritual” as he seems in what we deem as “spiritual” enough for Christian worship. Maybe what we need in our churches is more tears, more failure, more confession of sin, more prayers of desperation that are too deep for words.
Maybe then the lonely and the guilty and the desperate among us will see that the gospel has come not for the happy, but for the brokenhearted; not for the well, but for the sick; not for the found, but for the lost.

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