Mark 7:6-8
6Jesus replied, "You hypocrites! Isaiah was prophesying about you when he said,7`These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away. Their worship is a farce, for they replace God's commands with their own man-made teachings.'8For you ignore God's specific laws and substitute your own traditions."
Ouch . . . i wonder if that's me . . . i wonder if i've made things important because i've thought they were important. This was Jesus' response to the Pharisees who called Him and the disciples out for not washing their hands in the traditional Jewish way before eating.
i hope i haven't replaced God's commands with my own ideas. that would stink. i know people have called me out on man-made stuff before . . . i wonder if i'm guilty of it?
Grace
2 comments:
this is something i've been thinking about, too...in our corps, especially, regarding worship. people are constantly saying that someone else [generally older/younger than them] doesn't respect their "style" of worship, or that they do not respect the changes in manner of worship that have been made in the last few years.
we had an interesting discussion at dinner last night, and one thing that was said is that when we come to church on sunday morning it is not to worship by ourselves in our own manner, it is for the purpose of encouraging one another and worshipping our God corporately, as a body of believers.
just something i think we all forget sometimes.
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