"You are a screw up but God still loves you? And don't worry about doing anything on your own merit, just freeload and say you are with Jesus?
This guy's version of Christianity is kind of like the show "Entourage", in which a bunch of no talent idiots freeload off of a superstar so they don't have to pay the cover charge to get into the clubs."
My heart goes out to the person who wrote that. Once upon a time, in the not distant past I thought pretty much the same way. The problem is pride and ignorance. We are proud and we want to feel as though we are earning our own way to heaven. We are ignorant, in the fact that we think we have anything to offer God.
I am a total freeloader, in the sense the person is implying. But it's not so I don't have to pay the cover charge. It's because I have nothing with which to pay.
Thanks for posting these (2 above). I believe wholeheartedly in training my kids up in this truth. Perhaps someday, when they are struggling, the full force of it will wash over them and give them peace.
ReplyDeleteI've got the 4th - 6th graders at VBS next week, & this truth & a few others will be worked in to the material published by the Baptist Lifeway organization. SOme of the lessons seem a bit "dumbed down" or try to create a focus on the story that I disagree with. Whether the VBS director would approve of my plans, I don't know, but the things the Holy Spirit has shown to me are too valuable not to try and teach.