Quiet Time Notes
Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God
Kingdom First - Majoring in the Minors
January 10th, 2010Previous |
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Unless your righteousness surpasses the Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven -
Matthew 5:20
Pharisees:
- Strict observers of the law
- Walked around in flowing robes
- Offered prayers in unnatural holy voices
- Advertised their benevolence
- Majored in the minors yet forgetting the heart
Any different today?
- Boring clergy in odd clothes
- Preaching burdensome dos and donts
- Unrelatable sermons
- Unrelatable lives
People need and desire a relationship with God - not man-made religion
Perfect salvation is not the basis of salvation
Not a matter of making ourselves feel or look good, but to please God
Do you struggle with this?
- Have you created your own system of salvation?
- Do people say you are a people pleaser (Galatians 1:10)?
- Are we steeped in our own traditions or preconceived notions about the truth?
- What if no one was watching, would you still: give, sing, pray, study the same?