Hardly the same thing, I dont counsel people on their weight while being overweight, I dont counsel people of addiction while being in active addiction. I hate to break it to you, but Christians are still human, still faliable, and still prone to giving in to their flesh. I suspect that you believe that because Jesus was perfect that every Christian should be as well. That is impossible, as a matter of I tell people every day that its progress not perfection that we should seek. Yes, Phil's shortcomings do not make it ok for me to joke about his weight. However my jokes were not over the top malicious, still, I agree I should not have made them. I have been a Christian for about 7 years, so Im still learning and still trying. What I do know is that God is still in the miracle working business and sometimes those miracles are not instantaneous, but take place over years of time. For years of my life I couldnt talk without cussing, now its been years since I used profanity. I used to drink and do dope every day and clean and sober for 7 years, almost 8. I used to take from people, now I pray for them. If the worst thing I have to repent for today is making a minor fat joke about Phil, well, Im still light years from the person I was before I knew Jesus. Thats the part I dont think you get, Bill, that we are all human, even the Christians.
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