SERMON NOTES:

Are you unintentionally doing work for the devil?

Myth: To be a successful Christian I need to make Christianity strong. Fact: Christianity is not the institution. Christianity is the individual heart coming into relationship with God. That does NOT happen by force, coercion or intimidation.

When we respond to things in this world that are not of the Kingdom of Heaven in such a way as to try to control and force people - we are undermining both the very message of the gospel of God's grace AND their own ability to receive the message.

The enemy who sowed these seeds, the devil, can sucker the forces of goodness into taking up arms against the confusion that he himself has created - and thereby to do the enemy's work for him. People don't respond to hearing that they are terrible. They need to know that they are loved.