Concerns about the face of Christianity have led a former atheist to form a non-profit to address the perceived hypocrisy of the church.

The Texas-based non-profit Changing the Face of Christianity Inc. is a direct response to non-believers who believe all Christians are intolerant, judgmental, hypocritical and homophobic, explained founder R. Brad White.

White said when he speaks to non-believers, skeptics and agnostics, they constantly label Christians with one of those four words. And those four labels are preventing backsliders from returning to the church, he added.

“Where if 75 percent of people were coming back in the past, 35 percent of people are coming back now,” he pointed out.

With this, White created Changing the Face of Christianity to be a resource to reform those spreading the negative stereotype and to educate younger Christians from following in their footsteps.

White’s insights are not new. Dan Kimball opines in the beginning of his book, They Like Jesus but Not the Church, that the emerging generation is spiritually open to talk about Jesus but are very disinterested in joining or being associated with church.

Kimball argues that pastors and ministers have lost touch with the younger generation by shutting out all other viewpoints and opinions but those of fellow Christians.

White has taken the argument a step further and states that church members and leaders have blatantly turned them off by “hating the sin and the sinner.” He said this is most evident with homosexuality.

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