Amen! \/
You know brother Willie, I'm sitting here thinking how someone can be so blind about the grace of Jesus Christ and believe in their mind that they have to obey in order to maintain their position with the Lord. Then all of a sudden I remembered being that very type of legalistic zealot years back before my eyes were opened to the truth. And you know what helped get me to the end of my ignorance? Humility. I was broken and humbled again and again because my religious philosophy wasn't holding up for me. I shake my head at how stubborn and rebellious and hard-nose religious I was.
Oh bless the Lord Jesus for picking me up again and again each time my stiff-neck attitude brought me down! Hallelujah for His great mercy in getting me to let go of all that hideous nonsense and walking in His liberty and love.
You know brother Willie, I'm sitting here thinking how someone can be so blind about the grace of Jesus Christ and believe in their mind that they have to obey in order to maintain their position with the Lord. Then all of a sudden I remembered being that very type of legalistic zealot years back before my eyes were opened to the truth. And you know what helped get me to the end of my ignorance? Humility. I was broken and humbled again and again because my religious philosophy wasn't holding up for me. I shake my head at how stubborn and rebellious and hard-nose religious I was.
Oh bless the Lord Jesus for picking me up again and again each time my stiff-neck attitude brought me down! Hallelujah for His great mercy in getting me to let go of all that hideous nonsense and walking in His liberty and love.
No kidding. I had no trouble with going for that hogwash, hook, line & sinker. And we CoC people also thought you had to keep your Repentance Scorecard cleared and up to date, or you would bust Hell wide open if you happened to get hit by a bus before getting a chance to make "the walk of shame" on Sunday morning.
Yes, we even thought that you had to hang your head and look good and miserable, cataloguing each and every sin before you could take The Lord's Supper "in a worthy manner." (This is probably the one I feel the stupidest about believing.... "in a worthy manner".... Oh, Brother!)
But it is precisely because I was so steeped in all that Legalism that I want to slap silly, people still so blind to Jesus.