Hypocrisy

Many children attend some sort of Youth group at their church. Youth groups are suppose to be geared toward teaching the beliefs of a religion to young teenagers in a fun way that they will understand. Many youth look forward to attending their youth group meetings and going on fun youth group trips and learning about their religion with others their age but this was not the case for me. Growing up, my youth pastor was my aunts husband which to most kids that would be awesome but it was not a joyful experience. I remember sitting in class every Wednesday listening to my uncle preach about the lesson for the week but unfortunately I could not really focus on the lesson being taught because all I could think about was how he was preaching one thing but living the total opposite. At that point in time, I could not focus on the teachings because I could not understand how a person could stand in front of children who looked up to him and preach about all the things that we should not do because God does not approve of them but then once church let out that person could go do everything they just told us a person should never do. For example, a person should not impair their body with alcohol because God does not want us to harm our bodies but that lesson didn't apply to him once church let out because no one from the church would ever notice that he was preaching one thing but doing another because he was a "closet" drunk, to them at least. Even though I have learned to deal with others living a "double life", I have also realized the effect it has on others because at that time I did not think that it really effected me to much but as I grew older I realized that I distanced myself from attending youth group events because I could not listen to someone preach one thing and do the opposite.