If God can make a dumb donkey walk into an ark, SURELY he can bring some stupid humans into the church! Lord bring them in to hear your Word.

That was a tweet yesterday morning. The writer, perhaps, forgot that some of the “stupid humans” he is talking about might be on twitter. They might have seen what he was saying.

It’s possible, of course, that he was talking about people like the Pharisees, the people that Jesus compared to white-washed tombs. If Jesus were talking now, he’d say “You teachers of the law. You are such hypocrites. You are like beautiful expensive caskets, shiny on the outside, full of death on the inside.”  Everyone around the edges listening to the conversation would go, “whoa, dude. That is rough.”

And then would cheer.

Because no one likes a hypocrite. More accurately, no one likes living up to the expectations of a hypocrite. I’m a hypocrite when I expect you to live up to words that I don’t even try to. I’m a hypocrite when I talk about loving God and then I put all my energy into making sure you think I’m spiritual.

Jesus hated that kind of behavior. And it’s possible that the tweeter was talking about church leaders who are doing now what the Pharisees were doing. But I don’t think so.

So to the tweeter, and to all of us, and to my mirror, just this note: The people we want to come inside our buildings, our groups, our lives, are standing on the fringes, often hurt by church, watching to see whether being inside changes us. Because if going in there doesn’t change us, then what’s the point.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to spend some time cleaning up some debris. On the inside.