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The Gap Between Talk and Walk

Jesus’ critiques of religious performance

Jesus reserved some of His strongest words for those who maintained a public religious image while the private reality was different. Hypocrisy is not the same as imperfection. Everyone fails. Hypocrisy is the refusal to admit the failure while still claiming the image. The remedy is not perfect performance; it is honest alignment.

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Hypocrisy is not the presence of failure. It is the pretense that failure is not there.

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