If You Go To Church Poem by Randy McClave

If you go to church
Why do you still mock and bully others,
Isn't Jesus teaching's that you search
Aren't we all your sisters and bothers.
I wonder if you ever did listen
Or maybe the devil instead whispered in your ear,
You forgot the meaning what it is to be a Christian.
Now you want to judge and accuse and fear.

If you go to church
Why do you hate that odd person over there,
Why at them do you smirk and lurch
You send them to hell, and never give them a prayer.
Is it because they are poor, needy or gay
So, you will damn their existence and their fate,
Or is because of their beliefs which you believe is not ok
Jesus taught forgiveness and the word, and not hate.

If you go to church
Don't you know everyone there is/was a sinner,
Even the pastor on the perch
Even the ones with who you have dinner.
Remember a sin is a sin
And not one sin (except for blasphemy) is greater,
Created by all women and men
Especially being a liar, a mocker, a bully or a hater.

If you go to church
Don't you seek the love and the forgiveness of the Holy Ghost,
But, at others you give a sigh and a smirch
God hears your thoughts and reads your every post.
Instead of posting of the Lord's love and redemption
You instead post of hate, bullying and judging with a lurch,
Maybe you believe that you are that one exemption
That is, if you truly go and listen in church.

Randy L. McClave