What makes people think that Christians are supposed to be all good?

I was at Baskin Robbins the other day.  It is one of those 31st of the month where we get 31% discount.  I bought three quarts of icecream and that means a long waiting time.  So, I stood there waiting for my turn to pay.

There is this group of young college students, about 9 of them, sharing three pints of icecream.  They have finished their icecream and ewwss…I wonder how they eat from the same tub of icecream? Isn’t it a bit icky to be swapping saliva like that?

The group consists of one guy and the rest are girls.  So, this guy was boasting about his marvellous feat of  fighting with a lecturer while the girls giggled away.  I didn’t pay much attention until I heard one girl said, “Isn’t he (the lecturer) a Christian?”

Then, their conversations seem to expound the fact that  lecturer is a Christian and yet, was mean.  The reason was something like the lecturer asked the guy to leave the class because he was challenging the lecturer or something.

While standing there, I was thinking to myself….”Doh…so what he is a Christian?  Is there any holy law that says Christians are supposed to be door mats and punching bags?”

I think that’s the thing with people.  Just because Christians are expected to be more charitable, turn the right cheek and etc, it doesn’t mean that we have to do that all the time at the expenses of being trod  on.   While other sees Jesus as the one who remained silent and forgiving, when I opened up pages of the Bible, I see Jesus as the outspoken one who do not care less about the things around Him if they make an ass of themselves.  Just think of how many times Jesus talked in parables about the Pharisees?  How many times Jesus had reminded His disciples about God pulling out the roots, throwing the vines into the fire, chopped off the branches that are not bearing fruits and etc?

This is why I love the Gospel of Matthew and will read it again and again because each time, I feel closer with  Jesus, the sharp tongue one.  He does not mince His words.  He gave it to them straight on the face.

“Are you still so dull?”  (Jesus asked His blur disciples in Matthew chapter 15, verse 16)