?Detoxing from Religion?

John Pavlovitz has recently written a post intended to convey grace......

But it is a dangerous grace........

A grace accepting grace without advancing it........

It is a stagnant pool that only receives without allowing the flow of waters beyond it........

It is a selfish view of grace.......

And, not so surprisingly, it resulted in a caustic response in the comments below (not attributed to Pavlovitz, of course, but 'toxic grace' does indeed draw out such caustic responses....):

Hoax

The great hoax
foisted by religion

has been
the infallibility
of its doctrines

To which I responded:

a great turn of words.... but.....

The greatest hoax foisted by the flesh is.....

That those infallibly true truths can't be misunderstood by the soul......

Of course they are! By ourselves as well as by those who have led before us (or who are leading us now)..........

The thing that is John Pavlovitz's article is missing?

Grace..............

Which is the cure...........

You see, grace coming into us is not enough.

We must step onto the platform of grace for those around us.... even for those in leadership, who have led us, or are leading us, who have similar types of misconceptions of true doctrines (maybe not the very same ones..... but an inability to see straight..... which we also struggle with,..... no?!....)

Oh, the words might all be properly thought out.

The foundation of them might be properly established on the Cornerstone.......

But if our vision isn't changed by what we know "properly", perhaps the 'corrective lens of scripture' isn't sitting squarely on our faces..........

...........so we still see life and living........ all askew.........

........ we still see amiss........

So, if we hope to receive grace for ourselves for such skewed vision........

How is it that we should not receive grace to share with those who have, or are --- leading us in the wrong direction.

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When we really step up onto the platform of grace?  Then we can dive deeply into the living water.... the flowing, alive, fresh, life-giving water of grace.......

When we really step up onto that platform of grace?  For the whole body of Christ......

When we are really praying from the depth of our beings:

"OUR Father......."

Then it is that the healing begins..........

But not until then...........






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