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If I try hard and fail I can deal with that. If I study hard, and do it wrong and fail I can live with that. But if you tell me the right way to do it and its wrong… I can even swallow that. But if you purposefully tell me false information and I fail… I feel gullible, and I am outraged.
And that - I can’t live with… unfortunately many do every day.
Hey thanks for all who reached out to me during my break. Lindsay, Jeff, Pete, Austin, Lance, Erik, Eric, Tony… and so many more.
It is suicide season. January - April.
The Seven Great Lies of Organized Religion
Lie #1:
'If you live a moral life, deny yourself pleasure,
follow the prescribed rituals and give us enough money,
you'll have a decent shot at being accepted by God.'
When I first started playing guitar I would ask some people how they wrote songs and learned how to do it etc… A few of the people I really respected would give me these big long answers about it is an innate ability and skill understanding music theory, having a well trained ear and even some would say perfect pitch. it made it seem like I had tons of work ahead of me and maybe just wouldn’t be able to pull it off.
Wow, when I found out the truth and how easy it was… I was mad at those who gave me such foolish advice.
NOW I MAKE IT A POINT TO CUT TO THE CHASE WHEN I GIVE GUITAR LESSONS AND EXPLAIN IT AS SIMPLY AS POSSIBLE.
In the same way I cut to the chase when sharing Christ. it has nothing to do with how good you are, what you do, how much you give to the church, the poor or any other cause. it is not enough to just love everybody… etc…
This reminds me of an old Hagar the Horrible comic strip. It shows him climbing up a huge mountain (through the snow and cold) to find a monk, cross legged and meditating. He wakes him from his deep meditation and says please tell me the way to happiness. The monk ponders and leans in and says “fasting, prayer and self sacrifice”. Hagar, looks a little puzzled and says… uh is there anybody else up here I can talk to”?
it's no accident that Jesus' own biggest enemies 2000
years ago were precisely these types of self-righteous hypocrites.
They had everyone thinking that pleasing God was a never-ending
performance marathon.
Well Jesus painted a totally different picture. He told this
story:
Luke 18:
9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
V. 9 to some who were confident in their own righteousness…
2 problems arise from this:
Here is the first problem with that statement: They are so confident they are teaching people and telling others this is the way to do it.
Just be good, do better and work harder…
It seems to work for me..
Secondly: Self righteous people attract needy people and they in turn (the needy people) try to live up to what the confident person is doing - even though it is wrong.
You know the problem in most gyms? Everyone sees the super strong guy and they do what he is doing… the problem is - he is just naturally strong and it won’t work for you.
You simply doing what the self righteous person is doing isn’t enough - it won’t work for you.
OR WORSE YET… YOU ARE COPYING SOMEONE WHO IS ON FIRE FOR GOD AND IT’S REAL. But all you do is the outward of what they do. You pray the same prayer, speak the same lingo, go to the same church, listen to the same audio books etc… but it is not based on a relationship, it’s based on rules and religion.
Beware of the proud holy man who hangs a bunch of rules
around your neck… because you will hang by that which is around your neck.
Jesus is a relationship. Not rules.
Don’t let religion TELL you or SELL you otherwise!
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