I wanted to know what those here thought about certain people who claim to be Christian and yet act more like His enemy than His friend.

Case in point my father in law. I was laid up in the hospital last weekand he only came by twice to see how I was doing and stayed for less than two minutes to offer a "prayer" than went on his way.

This man is always trying to show others how good he is all the time by his "good" deeds, but the truth being told, his so called good deeds don't add up enough to fill a thimble. Of course everything he does is for his own glory, not God's and yet he thinks he impress people by acting so pious.

The man is a pastor of a small Baptist church and has a name for being such a strong man of God. He has his rules about not smoking, drinking, cussing and all the like, which he keeps to make him self feel superior to those who do those sort of things and it gives him permission to look down his nose on the unwashed as it were. What he can't see though is the fact that he is greedy, covetous, haughty and very prideful. I can't relate to this man no matter how hard I try mainly because he can't be honest with him self or others and has to be religious all the time.

How do you deal with someone like this who claims to know Him and yet deny Him by his own self righteousness and hard spirit? His oldest daughter was in the hospital last month and she missed being at work over a month and had to borrow money from him to get by till she was able to work. Now she is working two jobs just to pay him back. He could have just given her the money out of love but he is so tight and legalistic he has to have every penny payed back to him even from his own family. I feel for this man, and yet I wish God would expose him for what he truly is and make him see his need of grace that he denies to others.

Thanks.

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