Questions about God's actions toward believers vs. non-believers

[Rachie]

Let me tell you Rachie. At one point I would have said I was an atheist, an ex-Christian who left the faith.

I had excellent reason to leave the faith. My youth group was caught up in a molestation ring and the church tried to cover it up.

The reason I was actually not a Christian then is because, even then, although I said all the right things like the Pharisees, I had zero love for Jesus. I had zero interest in reading the Bible. I attended youth group, sure, but the most interest I had in Jesus was praying for good grades, wealth, whatever. I didn't actually enjoy the Bible.

Coming to Jesus at age 40 or so, I opened the Bible and fell in love with it immediately. And started reading it everyday. By that time, I'd also gotten a lot of experience in understanding others' writings - and most people can't keep their own narrative or points straight for 20 pages, let alone 40+ authors across thousands of years. I could see the message, and the miracle within the message.

Your thoughts with recent events has got me thinking me again.

It kind of relates to your thoughts.
The recent events in the Anglican church in the UK really shocked me. I never really watch the news and I never even knew this was going on and I was away from home for several years as well in hospital. I heard about this that Justin Welby stepped down a few days ago. I was shocked as I liked him. I am still quite shocked but am getting over it. I am non demontional and when I heard at first I just felt like God was being let down. It will take some to get over it and my church I attend is good to me and I will continue to go. It is sad though. All the scandals doesn't help the church and it certainly never ok for anyone to be in a position to do this.

Some interesting thoughts thoughts from Welby himself that we all make mistakes and we need to focus on Jesus himself, That reminded me of what you posted about keeping on focusing on Jesus and about love, it is what we need to do and not give leaders such status.

I came across a good article about church scandals from Premier website and it mentioned the need for new church leaders and create something better, it helped me.-
The Church is being damaged by scandals. Here’s 3 reasons why I still have hope