Friday 27 January 2012

A tyrannical religion

I have listened to quite a few of the seeker-driven 'sermons'. I do not understand why it is supposed to draw seekers because this is the most tyrannical religion ever. It is not acceptable to confront people with their sin as this will drive people away. It is such a negative concept. So now we call it bad choices, imperfections, little mistakes and so forth. The problem though, as pointed out by different people, is that without preaching sin, one cannot preach the Grace of God. If sin doesn't really exist, what do we need grace for? What we have now is a religion based on principles from Scripture, where all the different stories are merely in the Bible to show us how to make our dreams come true, or not to miss the great dream God is dreaming for us. Looking at all the different Bible stories it is clear that there must all in all be about 687 principles identified by now by which one absolutely HAVE to live by to find and live God's dream for you. You REALLY don't want to miss THAT? Those principles are for dreams only. There is another multitude of principles, shown us clearly from examples in Scripture, of how to raise healthy children, how to save your marriage, find the best job ever etc. etc. etc. On top of that comes the imperatives that one have to live by to make yourself blessable (even my spellchecker knows that word doesn't exist). Making yourself blessable include financial principles. You surely want God to give you the blessings in store for you, all those blessing He cannot give you because He is incapable of doing anything if you don't open His hands. The point is that you end up with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of principles that your life depends on. You have to do all this and don't think you can get out of it, because there is no real grace. Our Saviour has become merely another example from which we can get life principles. There is no grace, no salvation, nothing. Can you imagine the unbearable burden to keep all the different parts of your life in one piece. Is it not much more kind, loving and seeker sensitive to help people face their sins head-on and then share with them the infinite Grace of God, the fact that God gave His only Son, so that we can be forgiven.  

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