I don’t believe the ability to point out a problem is, in itself, a spiritual gift, certainly not one which the church should celebrate and cultivate in Christians.
Pete Hurst offers a few thoughts on where we should tell negative people to go:
Being negative, a pessimist, a cynic, is not God’s will for a Christian. Some of us are recovering pessimists; others of us need to be in negativity rehab. Of all the people on the face of God’s good earth, the Christian should be the most positive. How can a Christian be negative, when he knows he is created in the image of God and has been reborn as a child of God and adopted into God’s family? How can he be negative, when he wears the sign of God’s people in baptism and is privileged to come to the exclusive family fellowship meal with God in the Supper? How can a Christian be negative, when he knows that all his sins are forgiven, that the perfect obedience of Christ counts for him, that God’s Spirit indwells him, that God is working out everything for his welfare, even the bad stuff; that God will never leave him or forsake him, that He will supply all he needs in this life and the next, and that he doesn’t need to worry about dying? I could go on and on; but you tell me, who better has a reason to be positive and should not be wallowing in the negative?
Read the rest at God’s Fool.
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