Reading Week Continues
From “The Jesus Way”
“There is an addictive quality to Baal. Giving up Baal means that we give up control over God. Giving up Baal means that we no longer have all the vast spiritual paraphernalia at our beck and call. Giving Baal means that we give up any hope of having influence with God, of being able to get our way with him. Giving Baal means that we let go of the comforting illusions that allow us to live in guilt-free dishonesty. Giving up Baal means that can no longer use religion to scare or bribe or bully other people. Giving Baal means that we have to grow up. And growing up is not an attractive option for men and women who are accustomed to a culture that gives them a free pass to a Disneyesque religion of entertainment and ecstasy.”
This painful assessment of church culture is not far from the truth. We are too often saplings when God intends to grow Sequoias.
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