Why is it that you can never please some people because they only look at the ways you are failing? Why are some Christians so hung up on what people do? If we are saved by grace through faith, what’s with the emphasis on rules? Look, the reason so many Christians place a huge importance on following rules is really quite simple, and don’t forget this: It gives them a measurable way to be better at the spiritual life than you, period. It’s a way for them to make life with Jesus into a competition and make sure they win. The way it goes down is like this - a person realizes they really do have it together in a certain area of their walk with the Lord. As in, they naturally don’t really struggle in this one thing. That person’s next step is to turn the whole focus of their spiritual life on that one thing they are already doing well and ignore everything else they really do struggle with. As a result, they look more spiritual than you despite the fact that they are probably missing the whole point of what that one thing they’re good at is actually about. The Pharisees did this with the Sabbath. When Jesus relieved people’s suffering on the Sabbath with healing, they persecuted Him for breaking the law, (which they never did) but the whole point of the Sabbath was to be a gift of rest to people, not to become a burden people were always failing at. Following God shouldn’t be a burden. His way should give you life and obedience should flow out of love so that whatever rules there are actually serve you instead of you serving the rules.
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