Me: How has your time been spent today with your friend.
Prodigal: Good but he’s too good to scale his own fish.
Me: Maybe I will share along those lines then.
This is from Brennan Manning
The Pharisees, who carried religion like a shield of self-justification and a sword of judgment, installed the cold demands of rule-ridden perfectionism because that approach gave them status and control, while reassuring believers that they were marching in lock-step on the road to salvation. The Pharisees falsified the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper whose favor could be won only by the scrupulous observance of laws and regulations. Religion became a tool to intimidate and enslave rather than liberate and empower.
Don’t stay in bondage. There is freedom and joy and another way.
Psalm 50:1
The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
