Agreed 100% Ive noticed that people like to classify anyone who spends much time and energy on studying and talking about the Word of God. Once you get to a certain depth, which actually doesnt take long, people put you into the super-religious or extreme category. I think thats because it makes it easier on their brains to rationalize why they dont. Its easier to label and pigeonhole anyone showing themselves approved than it is to actually consider ones own lack of interest in God and His Word. Go spend about 2 years studying and talking about the Bible, and watch as people repeatedly tell you to go to seminary or be a pastor. Youll see how you will be thrust into a whole new classification, because the average person has no identification with intense studies. As if the only people qualified or required to deeply study the Word are professors and theologians. Its quite disturbing actually, how among the average population the status quo is mostly devoid of conviction to honor God in studies. It is embarrassing that so many people who call themselves Christians are self-deceived. If I have any reason to never become a pastor, it would be show that the least of us, the worst of us, the bottom of the barrel, as I, should study Christ with vigor and intensity, without being classified as some super-Christian. I am not a caricature with exaggerated study habits, and one should feel shameful to treat me as such. As a spokesperson for the least of us, who has no labels, no degrees, no status, no high position, I urge you brothers to study and involve yourselves deeply in the Word and to stop looking at yourselves as mere members of a church who cannot spend time on such things. That is a horrific excuse, and it is costing the people of God their minds. - Matthew Hagen
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 22:04:32 +0000
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