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Food for Thought - School vs Church
Food for Thought - School vs Church
If you are a student in a school, you are given assignments. You’re supposed to read a book, do what it says and be prepared to pass a test. Or you’re supposed to solve math problems that have a definite answer. When you’re given the book to read or the math test to take, you don’t get to choose which chapters to read or which problems you want to answer.
You can’t expect to correctly answer the questions about the first 10 chapters of the book if you only read the last 10 chapters of the book.
It doesn’t matter if you think 2+2 should be 6. It doesn’t matter if your interpretation of 2+2 is that it equals 22. It doesn’t matter if a good person told you 2+2 is 5. It doesn’t matter if your feelings persuade you to choose the wrong answer. The answer is still 4. If you only choose to solve 3 of the 10 math problems, even if you get all 3 of those correct, you are still only going to get a failing score on the test.
If we understand this about school, why don’t we understand this about religion? We have been given a book – written by men, inspired of GOD. We have been given instructions – by the greatest teacher of all times. What makes us think that we can pick and choose which verses of the Bible that we want to live by or that we can twist the words to make them mean what we want them to mean? What we think, interpret and feel or that someone told us can be completely wrong. We need to study ALL of the Word and make sure we are not misinterpreting or applying our own thoughts and feelings where we should not. I’m as guilty of not studying like I should as the next person – but shouldn’t we be preparing for the biggest test of our lives so that we can be told ‘Well done, good and faithful servant…enter thou into the joy of thy Lord’?
