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Two powerful weapons: shame & guilt trips.
Over the past 5 years I have seen this becoming the tool of choice in our world.
The goal: conformity & uniformity.
There is an innate desire to be like others, or to have others be like us.
We want to generalize our experience and make it mandatory for others.
We want predictability.
Routine may be a better word.
We don’t like chaos and so we do our best to limit it.
Yet, this is not attainable.
One concern: legalism.
This may have as its foundation good acts, not taking advantage of others, but prevents growth.
Legalism runs off track because it focuses on not bad things but the wrong thing.
“Don’t, don’t, don’t”
Second concern: Spiritual elitism.
Proclaiming the “special” revelation God has given you in prayer.
Having great visions, look at my spirituality.
Look at how much Scripture I know compared to you.
Third concern: bondage.
As good as some things sound the end result is not freedom.
Pauls says in
Elsewhere he also states the following:
The result: worship of self/individual/humans.
A true tragedy.
This does not happen just with those who don’t know Jesus but we as Christ’s people sometimes are the culprits of this type of worship.
We focus so much on what we are not to do.
We focus on teaching others what they cannot do and make sure the world knows the truth of things.
We may try to show others as good we are by what we do, in hopes they will notice us.
The remedy: seek Christ.
It is a matter of focus.
Here is how Jesus said it:
Then again:
Our actions will reveal our focus and heart.
This is why Scripture can say:
Practical Takeaways:
Persevere in seeking Christ.
We must continually seek Christ.
Not because he cannot be found, but because to stop seeking him is to stop truly living.
Memorize Scripture.
We cannot effectively combat, guilt, shame, legalism, elitism, bondage and self worship on our own.
We must know what Christ says about us.
Live in community.
Be part of a group.
Don’t go it alone.
The question for us as a church, how will we support others in ways the encourage community but not uniformity?
How can we have diversity and unity?
Live differently.
Paul is going to go in depth about what different may look like in the remainder of chapter
Focus on Jesus, the real deal.
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