This weekend we are centering on knowing the Lord as we continue in “Not a Fan.” Hope you’ve been “all in” so far this week. If not, dial it in right now.
Over the past months, I’ve received so many emails about how God is changing so many of us. God is at work in your lives. As He works realize while you strive to live like Christ, when you fall short, Jesus isn’t going to beat you up when you are giving to him your very best. In these emails, there’s a common theme that runs through many of them, and I wanted to say this:
YOU’RE NOT EVER GOING TO BE PERFECT.
Some of you grew up in households or maybe church systems that treated you like a burrow chasing a carrot on the end of a stick. Bottom line, that donkey never gets the carrot, hence there’s never any sense of achievement or accomplishment. Just the same illusive perfection carrot is out in front of you.
With Christ (many of you need to read this now 4 times over because it’s the truest thing anyone is ever going to say to you) he GIVES you his righteousness. You will never earn it, attain it, merit it, or even gain it. It’s a gift.
And guess what else—nobody else within the church is perfect either. Therefore they require love and grace FROM you just as God extended it TO you. “Anyone” (as we talked about last Sunday) means “anyone.”
Catch this: any system of biblical interpretation that manifests itself in the life of a believer without love, grace, and truth as primary character traits is simply a bad way to interpret the Bible.
Why did I write all that?
Some of you need to stop beating yourselves up. You are never going to be perfect. Welcome to the land of love, grace, and relationship with Jesus.
Looking forward to getting up close and personal both with the Lord and with everyone this weekend as we continue to move from fans to followers. – Scott
PS – We mailed out a Forum Connection this week , but if you’d like to view it online you can check it out at: www.forumchristian.org then click on Resources and then Forum Connection.
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