Title: The Good News (5)
Series: Weakness Is Your Greatest Strength
Author: Eddie Snipes
Text: Romans 5:8-10
Toxic relationships do not create healthy people. A toxic relationship is one that drains the life out of one person or the other. It's a relationship where one person demands so much that the other person can't thrive. Our time is spent appeasing the toxic person to avoid outbursts of wrath, words of condemnation, and trying to defuse a critical spirit. Love must be earned in this type of relationship.
Religion has created a toxic relationship for its members through a false image of an angry, demanding, and critical version of God. Religion says that God demands worship, service, and perfect obedience.
This is why most people give up on the legalistic form of Christianity. It's toxic. It demands more than we can give, and when we fall short in any way, the wrath of this religion's god seethes against us, rejects and condemns us, and brings punishment upon us.
Why do we project upon God the worst attributes of humanity? We advise people to escape toxic human relationships, so why do we advise people to submit to a toxic version of God? According to the Bible, God is love. He is not wrath, anger, hatred, or vengeful.
For the first twenty years of my Christian life, I wasted my energy trying to appease an angry God. I tried to force myself into good behavior. I worked hard in church. I forced myself to read a certain amount of scripture each day. After two decades of trying, I found myself mentally exhausted, spiritually weak, and frustrated.
I was in a spiritual toxic relationship with an angry god that does not resemble the God revealed to us in the Bible. Scripture teaches that God is love. The word for love comes from the Greek word, Agape, which means love that is self-giving, self-sacrificing, outward focused love. In 1 Corinthians 13, the Bible explains agape love as: patient and kin ...
Series: Weakness Is Your Greatest Strength
Author: Eddie Snipes
Text: Romans 5:8-10
Toxic relationships do not create healthy people. A toxic relationship is one that drains the life out of one person or the other. It's a relationship where one person demands so much that the other person can't thrive. Our time is spent appeasing the toxic person to avoid outbursts of wrath, words of condemnation, and trying to defuse a critical spirit. Love must be earned in this type of relationship.
Religion has created a toxic relationship for its members through a false image of an angry, demanding, and critical version of God. Religion says that God demands worship, service, and perfect obedience.
This is why most people give up on the legalistic form of Christianity. It's toxic. It demands more than we can give, and when we fall short in any way, the wrath of this religion's god seethes against us, rejects and condemns us, and brings punishment upon us.
Why do we project upon God the worst attributes of humanity? We advise people to escape toxic human relationships, so why do we advise people to submit to a toxic version of God? According to the Bible, God is love. He is not wrath, anger, hatred, or vengeful.
For the first twenty years of my Christian life, I wasted my energy trying to appease an angry God. I tried to force myself into good behavior. I worked hard in church. I forced myself to read a certain amount of scripture each day. After two decades of trying, I found myself mentally exhausted, spiritually weak, and frustrated.
I was in a spiritual toxic relationship with an angry god that does not resemble the God revealed to us in the Bible. Scripture teaches that God is love. The word for love comes from the Greek word, Agape, which means love that is self-giving, self-sacrificing, outward focused love. In 1 Corinthians 13, the Bible explains agape love as: patient and kin ...
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