People go to college to be better educated, get better jobs, have better homes, and enjoy a better life. But is that what God wants for us, a “better” life? The word “better” can result in awful theology, whose core premise is this: “if you just try harder, you can be a better Christian.” “Better” is ‘code’ for self-improvement—which stands in opposition to the gospel of grace and mercy. (And, by the way, the word “TRY” never shows up in the New Testament!)
“Better” is Youniversity’s core value, as seen in such course offerings as: “This is Your Day,” “The Life You’ve Always Wanted,” “Your Best Life Now,” and “Become a Better You.” But the Youniversity offers nothing on the supremacy of Christ. You won’t find any classes on: “Dying with Christ,” “Christ in You; the Hope of Glory;” or “It is no longer I who live but Christ.” To learn these, you will have to drop out of the Youniversity and enroll in the School of Christ, where classes are not about you, but Christ.
Think about this: Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good. He didn’t come to make good people better. He came to make dead people alive.
Greg,
ReplyDeleteIt causes our human minds to halter a bit to consider that the life we live in our own physical body that contains our own thoughts and ponderings, our own emotions complete with our own unique expression of them, and our own will and its decision-making mechanisms, is not about us at all! We have an "earthen vessel" that has no real value apart from what fills it and the intention of the Potter is that we have it filled with His Own life!
But it stlll doesn't seem to make sense. But then again, neither is dying to live,
Stan