DON’T LET THE TRUTH SPOIL A GOOD STORY

Have you ever heard that statement?  It’s so true, isn’t it?  If you have a good story to tell about something, and the truth only spoils or dilutes that good story, don’t bring it in.  Keep the truth out, and then you can proceed with your good story. 

Churchmen use this practice frequently.  They have (in their minds) such a good story to tell about their church, and they tell it! – therefore they will not allow the truth to spoil the telling of it or spreading the content of that 'good' story. 

I heard it said by a former member of a certain well-known minister’s church that he is held in such high regard by his members/admirers that he could be seen drunk in their local town, and these adherents would not believe it, however credible the witnesses.  

Or again, listen to the annual reports given by church leaders about the state of religion and spirituality within their church and you’ll hear the best story imaginable.  Everything is good, and positive, and uplifting.  No problems exist anywhere.  All in the garden is rosy.  Things have never been better. 

How can they tell such a good story?  By not allowing the truth to get in its way.  The kind of truth that will spoil a 'good' church story includes admitting that some elders are foul-speaking reprobates, yet come across so spiritual and religious when the situation suits or demands it.  Or listening to church officials constantly blaspheming the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Or church officers who have their 'fancy piece' on the side, while condemning other Christians for much lesser faults.  Or church readers whose privcate life would make people like Peter Stringfellow blush.   Or, the cover-up that is being perpetrated by the churches involving the abuse of members on a grand scale by the church. 


But you cannot admit to those things because that would burst the bubble that is their 'good' story.  The truth will spoil such a story, so ignore it, and it might go away.