It offends me

 Talking to someone about my publications and how my publications have caused many people to separate from me because of them, I told that person:

  "I have never written something looking to offend anyone, in reality there are things that I write with so much love, pain and helplessness. Really wanting things to change regarding the situation or the issue I am referring to in the publication.

The problem is that we live in a society where people even seek to feel offended. It reminds us of a (bad) joke that went more or less like this: "That a guy was talking to another and said "That cow gives milk!" and the other guy was left thinking "The milk comes cow, the cow is ridden by a bull, the bull has horns, he called me Cachuo! and Boom punched the guy."

Just like that bad joke, people are today, looking for the slightest detail that makes them feel offended in a publication.

People want to be offended by anything, even stupid things. In order to harm oneself or attack.

I remember one time working at the IUTA, I was helping a young woman of about 25 years old and I was explaining to her, I think, how to print an online form, and I told her "No mija, it's not that way" and the girl started insulting me because I called her MIJA! After a while I told him, Are you from here in the East? He answered me "No", I told him, do you by any chance know what "mija" means around here? He answered me "No" and I told him, then why the hell did you get upset when I called you mija? There he let his guard down and started laughing.

Look how crazy what happened, she didn't even know the meaning of the word, but she felt offended! That example is a portrait of today's society. So we are, it is impossible to write or say something that does not offend anyone even if you want to do it with the greatest delicacy.

Now, let's go with things that do offend. The truth offends. People will always feel offended by the truth, that is why it is impossible to preach the true gospel without people being offended because the true gospel tells people: "You are a sinner" and that was always an offense even before. of this generation. Imagine now, that is why many are preaching a "Different Gospel" as the apostle Paul calls it, in order not to offend anyone.

The Apostle Paul called those who preached that type of gospel "Cursed." Yes, those who preach a non-confronting gospel that does not offend are damned, because if it does not offend, it is not the truth therefore it is not the gospel.

If you ask today's men of God, and I mean real men of God, not charlatans like Raúl Ávila, Cash Luna, Guillermo Maldonado and similar trash. If you ask true men of God like Paul Washer, Miguel Núñez, Sugel Michelen... They will tell you that it is impossible to preach a gospel without offense. In fact, you don't even have to ask them, they already have several sermons about it, they have even published books on the subject.

But today you can't say anything because "Everything Offends" "They see everything as criticism"

I am preparing a publication on criticism, but I leave you a preview: "You have to be careful with what we call criticism, because sometimes we call something criticism and it turns out that it is just a description of something, let me explain, I could say that Jesus was a critic because in Matthew 23 he took the scribes and Pharisees to task. I could call Jesus a critic for that and by the way he did it more than once. Ooooo I can also say that Jesus was not criticizing the scribes and Pharisees but I was just describing them"

It's like being called skinny and I take it as an offense or criticism. No, by calling me skinny they are not insulting me nor are they criticizing me, THEY ARE DESCRIBING ME. I have seen so many publications about criticism that I am already fed up, they don't even know what it is, but they need to preach about it and give them the definition that suits them to manipulate people so that they DO NOT DESCRIBE THEM. They are manipulative pastors who if they do not repent will go to hell.

It's time to mature, it's time to grow emotionally. We are in the world, but we are not of this world. If we live in a world where they are offended by everything and where they look for anything to feel offended in order to fight or get hurt, we Christians, No, because we were ordered to be different from what this world is like.

I don't know if you know, but I wrote a book, my first book, it's called "Esqueletos en el Closet" and it is already on sale in several stores in e-book and printed format, in Spanish and English.

That book could cause many people to hate me or it could cause many people to understand the objective of the book and we begin to see changes in leadership, churches and pastoral families. It will all depend on how offended people feel when reading it.

It is a very delicate book but edifying if you understand the heart with which I wrote it.

My loves, it's time, it's time to be so emotional. Sometimes there are people who just want to make us laugh and we "get offended" and we even make the person who wanted to brighten our day feel bad.

Speaking of my book, it has already been published for 7 days, but today I realized that there is an error on the cover and in the introduction “I ate” a word, (perhaps it has many more errors) Imagine that someone notices them and tells me about them. them and I say “You are criticizing me, you offend me.” Doesn't it sound stupid?

Last week I wrote a post where I mentioned two of my nieces and my mother. Normally my family does not read my publications, but if someone reads it with the mentality of this generation, they will say "look how it offends their nieces and their mother." But if someone reads it with the heart with which I wrote the publication, they will understand my love for them .

I don't know if anyone reading this is already fed up with the fact that you always have to look for the most delicate words to speak to people, even Christians, because it offends everyone. (And they are the same ones who say they are warriors of God)

Kisses, I am the profebubba. And God forbid me from telling the truth without loving or from loving without telling the truth (Juan Manuel Vaz)