Are all Christians hypocrites? It depends entirely on how we define hypocrite and what we mean when we use the term. To be a Christian and sin does not mean we are automatically a hypocrite; though that is typically how the lost world attributes this term. There is a drastic difference between a Christian who sins and a hypocritical Christian who sins. The difference is delineated in the idea of open honesty. One Christian can humbly admit that he or she is struggling with a sin, does not want to struggle with that sin and is asking for prayer to defeat that sin. The other Christian is struggling with a sin but is not honest with man or God about that struggle. And remember that
dishonesty is not just active lying, but is also the passive enabling of people believing something that is not true. A hypocrite is not a Christian who sins. A hypocrite is a Christian who desires people to think something untrue about themselves and fosters this thinking (actively or passively) in attempt to secure praise, status, or appearance. Let’s be honest with people about our sin.