Do you believe that God cares only that you “behave correctly?” That as long as you aren’t doing “bad” things, you and God are okay? Do you find yourself trying to live by a set of rules and “white knuckling” your Christian walk – straining very hard not to give into temptations and sin?

Our parents disciplined us as children, attempting to shape proper conduct, often by using reward and punishment. BUT that's not discipline, that's behavior manipulation. And as soon as our parents turned their back, we did exactly what they told us not to do! Why? Because we wanted to please our parents, but we didn’t believe in the merit of changing our actions.

Many believers in the church are very good at controlling their actions to “appear” Godly when others are watching, but don’t live or act like a Christian the other six days of the week. 

---

Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/addulajohnson/message