Some get it right:
from "What's So Amazing About Grace?" - Philip Yancey
Chapter One
The Last Best Word
I told a story in my book The Jesus I Never Knew, a true story that long afterward continued to haunt me. I heard it from a friend who works with the down-and-out in Chicago:
A prostitute came to me in wretched straits, homeless, sick, unable to buy food for her two-year-old daughter. Through sobs and tears, she told me she had been renting out her daughter -- two years old! -- to men interested in kinky sex. She made more renting out her daughter for an hour than she could earn on her own in a night. She had to do it, she said, to support her own drug habit. I could hardly bear hearing her sordid story. For one thing, it made me legally liable -- I'm required to report cases of child abuse. I had no idea what to say to this woman.
At last I asked if she had ever thought of going to a church for help. I will never forget the look of pure, naive shock that crossed her face. "Church!" she cried. "Why would I ever go there? I was already feeling terrible about myself. They'd just make me feel worse."
What struck me about my friend's story is that women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift? Evidently the down-and-out, who flocked to Jesus when he lived on earth, no longer feel welcome among his followers. What has happened?
(emphasis mine)
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So sad that the OP passes for gospel preaching. "Come to me all you who are heavy laden and I will have my ministers pile more burdens upon you" is not how my bible reads.
No, a gospel preacher would say something like "I don't know what your sins are. I don't need to know nor make judgement on them. What I do know is that if you have found yourself here and feel like you are no more value than a dirt dishrag, Jesus has an answer for that burden. Let me tell you about (pick one of any number of interactions between Jesus and sinners but the woman at the well and the woman caught in adultery come to immediate mind considering the subject matter of the OP) and show you how He came to cleanse you."
The church has it all backwards. We judge the world around us when specifically told not to and often ignore the sin right in front of us in our own camp.
