A young man has generated outrage online after posting his story of being accosted in church for wearing an earring during a worship service.
Disruptor shared the tale on X (previously Twitter), and it has now gone viral.
Confronted during worship.
According to the man, he arrived at church completely prepared to worship.
However, he claimed his attention was diverted when a stranger approached him mid-service to voice displeasure with his appearance.
He indicated that the visitor was concerned about the earring he was wearing, rather than his behaviour or character.
The conversation allegedly escalated when he ordered the man to mind his own business, only to be reminded that his “business in Christ” was also his problem.
The event made him doubt some attendees’ values and what he regarded as an increased tendency to judge outer appearance in church.
Questions about acceptance
He also mentioned that he has tattoos and questioned whether such personal preferences should dictate who is admitted in a house of worship.
Read his words below:
“I wore an earring to church yesterday. I went to worship. I went with my whole chest. I was present, I was focused, I was ready to receive.
Then a stranger tapped me mid-service and told me God was disappointed in me.
Not because of my character. Not because of how I treat people. Not because of anything I said or did.
Because of a piece of metal on my ear. I told him to mind his business. He told me my business in Christ is his business.
I want you to think about that for a second.
A man walked into the house of God and decided his assignment that morning was not to worship. It was to police another man’s appearance. To appoint himself as the gatekeeper of who is acceptable before God.
I have tattoos too, by the way.
Should the church post bouncers at the gate for that as well?
Here is what nobody wants to say out loud: the church has driven more people away with judgment than the world ever did with temptation.
I did not leave angry at God. I left asking one question.
If the first thing a man of faith does when he sees me is tell me l am a disappointment, why would someone who does not know God think church is a place for them?
We are so busy enforcing dress codes, we forgot the assignment was love.”
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