Okay, so maybe I should have made the Early Bird Challenge a “weekday only” challenge. Or maybe I shouldn’t have done the challenge over a weekend that Pam and I were traveling. Either way, I still posted every day, and that’s an accomplishment.
It was really good to hang out down in Kentucky this weekend. Brian’s sermon was about the Sabbath. It was refreshing. The Pharisees were all about keeping the Sabbath, but they had no concept behind the purpose of the Sabbath.
It’s the same with the religious folk of today. I know plenty of non-Christians and atheists who are so turned off by the religious people they encounter. Religion has become, too a lot of people, a set of rules to follow, a code of conduct. If you simply read the Bible, you’ll see a completely different story. Just read the book of Mark. Jesus was constantly picking fights with the Pharisees, the religious leaders. They simply didn’t get it. God gave us the law not so we’ll live by the book. He gave us the law to expose the sin that’s already there in our lives.
I’m broken. I was broken before I read the law, and now I, through the law, am simply made aware of my brokenness. No amount of “religiosity” can change that. Jesus came to make that right, to atone for that which I couldn’t do. To heal the broken. To save us from religion.
1 Comment
March 31, 2009 at 8:16 am
If only that gift hadn’t become so corrupted over all of these centuries of ceremony, tradition, and vanity. Perhaps, I wouldn’t have become so disillussioned. Your faith is interesting to observe nonetheless.