Misguided Voices In Your Life
-Pastor Don
- "The pain and negative circumstances in my life are the results of natural consequences or fate. They're not connected to my choices."
- "If God does discipline me somehow, it would probably be a one time deal. He's much too forgiving to impose escalating consequences or to intentionally cause me pain just to motivate me to stop sinning."
- "Let's be honest. the enjoyment I get from my so-called sin outweighs any spiritual benefit I'd get from stopping. And anyway, my sins aren't really hurting anybody."
- "I simply can't help myself. This problem goes back to my childhood. So why wouldn't God extend grace rather than impose discipline."
- "Just because I sin doesn't mean I can't do something for God. Hey, God uses crooked sticks. We can't all be Billy Graham, you know."
- "It's not a sin. It's just a weakness, part of my personality, something I struggle with."
-from Bruce Wilkinson, Secrets of the Vine: Breaking Through To Abundance, p. 51.
