An Open Letter To Kirk Franklin

I'm sorry you felt like you had to apologize publicly because your son posted your private conversation online.

I'm sorry Christian media has nothing better to do than try to expose you.

I'm sorry many Christians don't offer grace to public figures the way they expect grace to be offered to themselves.

The only people disappointed are those who pretend to have their life together and are good at wearing their "christian" mask. The only people that expect a public apology are religious people. Those who think, do or say worse but don't have a platform with millions of people watching and waiting for them to have a moment.

So, Kirk - you're good bro! My respect, for what it's worth, went up for you. Not because you apologized, but because you're real.

To the Christian who is offended. The world is watching you. Watching how you respond to one of your own. Now tell me again why they would want the God you worship as you sit there in your high chair criticizing someone on the same team? The reason many people don't want Christianity is not because Kirk Franklin cussed out his disrespectful, grown son...but because of how Christians respond to one of their own when they have moments like these. How quickly we tend to eat our own. Cannibalism is alive and active in the church and if we aren't careful, we give society a reason to want nothing to do with us. Why would our world want to believe that God loves them when the people who follow God are so quick to judge and reprimand each other publicly? Why would they believe the message "come as you are" if we tend not to like "who they is?" Why would they want the Jesus we worship when we're never really there to lift each other up, carry each other's burdens, and protect each other instead of expose each other?