Sunday, January 23, 2011

Overcoming Self-Deception: Reflection and Meditation

Living Life God's Way: Overcoming Self-Deception
 Spend some time thinking about the following statements made in the sermon

We Christians can be quite good at deceiving ourselves particularly when it comes to defending the particular way that we choose to live our Christian lives.

We might even deceive ourselves into believing that because our church has programs that care for the poor, we don't need to care for them.

The first step in overcoming self-deception, is to realise the ways in which we might be deceiving ourselves.

Let us not deceive ourselves into believing that it is okay to flip our lid. To freak out! It's not!

If you believe the Bible is the word of God, then put it into practice.

In the Bible, and especially in Jesus, we are meant to see ourselves.

If you do not control your tongue, your religion is worthless and you deceive yourself.

Is the religion you and I practice, that is, the religion that everybody else sees when they look at us,…. is it….. pure….. and.... genuine?