March 26, 2009

Rapping Legalists

Here’s a funny video that will illustrate the fact that the really “cool” churches out there are legalistic. I made the point to our small group last night that everyone is naturally a legalist. Conservative Christians and Fundamentalist Christians get a bad rap for being legalists when, in reality, I think a lot of the seeker-sensitive churches are more legalist than some fundamentalists. They just pick and choose their own righteousness (which is the essence of legalism).

Laugh, then be sad.

Posted by Bob Bixby at March 26, 2009 09:55 AM | eMail this entry! | 81 Words
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Comments

Was your use of the term “bad rap” intentional?

Posted by: Patrick Berryman at March 26, 2009 10:25 AM

Bob,

I think it’s also ironic how the Emergent-social-justice-Rob-Bell-neo-liberal crowd does the very same thing when it makes Christianity all about living like Jesus while it marginalizes, emasculates, or just flat out ignores the heart of the gospel. How strange when the ultra-left meets the ultra-right.

Posted by: ben at March 26, 2009 04:25 PM

Talk more about this. Do you mean that the legalism seeker churches commit is the “must tithe ten percent” message or that they MUST present a cool message in order to get their message across? That the only way a person could possibly understand what they are “preaching” is by delivering it in a cutesie attention-grabbing format?

Posted by: Amy at March 27, 2009 09:31 PM

Very true. I have often thought how legalistic liberals and free thinkers in the political arena are. Those who claim to be most tolerant in our society are in reality the most legalistic. And legalism has a way of trumping biblical and common sense.

Posted by: Eric Fisher at March 30, 2009 06:18 PM