Among the (many) excuses people
have for not exploring Christianity, there are two that are polar opposites,
yet equally effective at keeping God at arm’s length:
1. “Christians
are perfect, and I’m simply not good enough.”
2. “Christians
are hypocrites. They pretend to be all goody-goody, but turn out to be just as
bad as the rest of us.”
While William Wilberforce’s A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious
System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes is an
essay aimed at exposing the hypocrisy mentioned in point 2, he does manage to address
these two claims:
