We live in a world that rewards performance. It’s ingrained in us from an early age. Tests, sports, education, manners; almost everything. And this performance-based mindset affects our view of and relationship to God. We can believe we must perform to certain standards to be in right relationship with God. We feel that when we do the right thing, God turns his chair toward us. We feel that when we do the wrong thing, He turns His is back on us. As such, we begin creating religious performance-based rules for ourselves and then live by them, in bondage. But Jesus didn’t come to start a religion. He came to restore a relationship.
When it comes to guilt, many of us naturally lean in one of two ways: we wallow in it by reliving the past, or...
One of the issues that has created polarization within the church is sex. To seek unity on this issue, we must discover what God's...
We are not self-defined, but God defined. One of the ways that God defines us is “justified”. Justified means that when God looks at...
