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Spirituality Pushers
February 7, 2010
One of the factors that causes an increasing amount of people to shun organized religion of all shapes andsizes is the same reason that causes some people to run away from relationships: Certain kinds of people(and religiously organized folks have a strong tendency to fall into that category) seem to be driven by anincessant urge to improve their fellow humans. No matter how happy you may be in your present situation,if your life-style differs too strongly from theirs, they simply can’t live with it, but will endlessly persuadeyou to join them in the way
they’re
doing things.Their tolerance level towards people who do things differently than they is very low.While on one hand their strong conviction about their beliefs and methods is commendable, on the other onewould wish for the moment that it might dawn on them that some people might actually be called to dothings differently.It has been my observation that God is into awesome variety. – A variety that would probably strike some people as outrageous. Yet, as Christians, it’s something we need to learn, if we plan to follow the Man Whodidn’t care what the established members of society said or thought about Him when He associated withfallen women, the outcasts of society and constantly availed Himself of methods that had never ever beenheard of before.Most of us act as if Jesus, when He said, “I will build My church (ecclesia),” was talking about a box, andeveryone who belonged in that box was supposed to act and look exactly the same. Probably we do that because of the “boxiness” of our own finite minds. But let’s expand our horizons a little bit: What if Hewasn’t talking about identical cubicles when He said, “In My Father’s House there are many mansions”?What if Jesus’ intention was to set His believers
 free
, instead of locking them all up in one and the samesheep pen? What if He would much rather have us delight in those green pastures beside the still waterswhere He would lead us, instead of amassed together in a squashy fold, just waiting to be stripped of our wool?We all look down upon – and rightly so, perhaps – drug dealers, who sell their drugs to people, evenchildren, that get them addicted and dependent on their merchandise.But isn’t that in some ways exactly what a lot of religious people do who get people dependent on their system?Instead of just being concerned about their flocks’ welfare and proving this by equipping them with the righttools and weapons that will make them fit for the battle of life, they purposely seem to keep them as weak as possible and dependent on their system, eternally insecure even about basic faith issues such as salvation,which they might easily lose anytime they might stay away from their congregation for too long, or commitcomparable atrocious crimes…Some people’s concept of love seems to be: “To love you love you means to try to make you just like me.”But perhaps it’s supposed to be a lot more the way God – the One Who
is
Love, after all – did it: show that
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