We had an awesome time together talking about…
Assumption #2 – If I’m spiritual enough, I will have no pain or sinfulness.
From 12 Christian Beliefs That Can Drive You Crazy…
Daniel, you did a fantastically humble job leading the discussion. Thanks for putting in your time, energy, and talent into making the time deep and rich.
Safe Haven group meets to discuss the book, “12 Christian Beliefs That Can Drive You Crazy”.
Ok, let’s dive in.
Here are the questions again for further reflection and discussion:
- Are there certain things that happen in your life and you wonder why?
- What type of things do you do to be more spiritual?
- Is having no pain a goal for you? Do you wanna be more spiritual because you think you’ll have less pain?
- Are there ways you try to avoid pain?
We talked about pain in…
- being generous in finances
- finding purpose in work
- physical exertion at work
- losing work
We talked about growing up hearing, “You’re not good enough” and feeling bad about being depressed.
Not all negative feelings are sin. This includes pain, grief, anger, sadness, or fear from physical, emotional, or sexual abuse as a child.
The Fallout is this…if we think we’ll have no pain when we are “spiritual enough” (whatever that means!), we’ll bear bad fruit. And this bad fruit looks like…
- feelings of failure
- wasted energy
- hiding
- unforgiveness
- lack of love
Is this shocking? There’s no escaping the unpleasant fact: We will have pain and sin.
It’s how we deal with both sets of feelings – resulting either from sin or pain. If we don’t deal with our sins and pain, it’ll prevent us from what God wants for us. We confess the sin and take the pain to the Greatest Doctor to get healing.
Let’s experience the wonderful freedom of living the way God made us to live – not by having no pain, or trying to be more spiritual – but by simply going to God saying, “I messed up. Please help me.”
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