Lifestyles Ideas Management - Hear only the good stuff

Much of what we have learned in Christianity is not incorrect, but it is incomplete. For instance: To say “we are saved from hell” is not incorrect but it is incomplete. What is being left out is the glory of God. Without it, we many think it is “all about us.”

To declare, “God loves you and wants to bless you” is not incorrect but it is incomplete. God loves us and wants to bless us so that we might radiate his goodness and glorify him.

To affirm that “God is faithful” is not incorrect but it is incomplete. We may assume that God is faithful to us and not necessary to himself.

Filtering life through a “Me-o-logy lens can, over time be detrimental to your faith. It may leave you depressed and disillusion (“God, do you really love me?”), or bitter and angry (“God, why do you let that happen to me?”) Many Christians today are joyless, powerless and grump simply because they are still focusing on themselves and are walking away from hell rather than walking toward heaven having fallen in love with God. Joyless, powerless, grumpy – that is what an incomplete gospel can do to you.

Why did God choose to love and bless us? So that we could sit back in our comfortable chair in our comfortable home and say, “Praise the Lord! We have been blessed!” That’s only half of it. The other half is so that we could turn around and be a blessing to others; so that we could make known God’s glory among all peoples.

“May God be gracious to us and make his face shine upon us, that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.” (Psalm 67: 1-2)