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.
The Bible did not create Christianity. Christianity is the result of an event (the resurrection of Jesus) that created a movement (the church) that...
Your words have the power to build or destroy.
There are four relational commitments that make us worthy of trust. The third commitment is, “I will tell you the truth.”
