An Opinion Is An Opinion

“For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’ 

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’”

Luke 7:33-34

Even John the Baptist and Jesus were not immune to criticism.  No matter what they did, they were judged to be not what religious people should be.

It is still the same today.  Christians often take a bad rap no matter what they do.  For example, the United Methodist Church is portrayed as being too liberal and the evangelical churches are portrayed as being too conservative. 

What is interesting is that critics of the church are often people who have never been to church except for weddings and funerals.  We need to keep this in mind and not be too quick to question what we are doing when we are criticized.  All we need to be concerned with is what the Bible says about what we are doing.  If our actions line up with the Word of God, then we need to write off our critics for what they are:  people who cannot be expected to understand our actions because they lack knowledge. 

Jesus is our Lord, Master and Savior and His Word rules our lives, not the opinions of our critics.