A few unasked-for observations triggered by watching Christians attempt to edify one another on social media:
Observation 1: The frequency with which the words “That’s
not very Christ-like” are employed is inversely proportional to the
speaker’s grasp of what being like Christ actually involves.
Hey, I’m all for the occasional stern rebuke, having
benefited from quite a few of them over the years, but for a word of correction
to carry real moral authority, it kinda has to, well ... ring true. Lies, misrepresentations and insults don’t prick the conscience; the Holy Spirit does.
If you have never read the Gospels or have only managed to commit
to memory the well-known bits about love and forgiveness, drawing an unfavourable comparison to Someone you don’t actually know very much about is probably not
your best go-to line.