You Are Spiritually Challenged If:
1) You Read Christian Messages And Scripture By Reading For Five Minutes, Take A Nap,
Then Read For Five More Minutes, Continuing This Process Until You Are Done. (Matthew 5:10)
(You Might Apply The Same To The Reading Of This Message.)
Or
2) You Read Only The First Paragraph, Then Comment About The Whole Article.
Or
3) You Don't Read The Message At All But Then Comment As If You Did.
4) You Think That Because You Are In A Majority Of Spiritually Challenged Folks, That
You Must Be Correct. (Matthew 7:13)
5) You Black Out When Listening To Spiritual Speakers Or Writers, Other Than Oprah.
(1 Timothy 4; 2 Timothy 3:7)
6) You Think There Is Something To The DUH Vinci Code Because Ron Howard Made A Movie
About It. (Romans 1:22)
7) You Cannot Make Any Sense Of The Plain Sense. (1 Corinthians 2:14: Romans 1:19ff)
8) You Know That If God Was In Your Image
He Would Be Much More Interesting. (2 Timothy 3:1)
9) The Creature Fascinates You While The Creator Sends You To The Land Of Nod. (Romans
1:25)
10) You Think Deep Pockets Chopra Is Profound Because He Is From India And Talks
Slower.
11) Nothing Irritates You More Than Someone Who ISN'T Wishy Washy And Knows What They
Believe.
12) You Think You Understand The 'Wide' But Cannot Get A Grip On The 'Deep' Part. (1
Corinthians 2:10)
13) You Think That 'Touched By An Angle' Is Right On Target. (Galatians 1:8,9)
14) You Think That Understanding The Mechanics Of The Rainbow Also Makes The Son Shine
Behind It, Irrelevant. (Romans 1:22-25)
15) You Really Believe 'Faith In Faith' Is Enough. (2 Timothy 1:12)
16) When You Don't Like What God Has To Say That You Can Opt For Plan B. (2 Timothy
3:7)
17) You Believe That Had God Presented His Messages In Palatable Three Minute
Snippets He Would Have Been Much More Successful. (John 6:66)
18) You Believe That The World Religions Are Compatible, They Just Haven't Figured
That Out Yet. (Revelation 17)
19) You Know The Bible Would Have Gone Over Better Had God Given A Brief Summary Of
Each Book.
20) You Don't Think Any One Will Notice If You Disagree With Christians Without Giving
Any Specific Examples. (Romans 1:20-22)
21) You Are Thinking About Producing A Bible, Which Is In The Format Of USA Today,
That Takes Out All References To Sin And A Saviour.
22) You Think The 'Jesus Seminar' Was Convened To Talk About Jesus.
23) You Think You Or Your Organization Better Communicates Truth Than God Did. (2 Timothy
2:15; 3:16,17)
24) Think That Opposing Bush But Praising Castro, AquaDinnerJacket, And Chavez Will
Solve The World's Ills.
25) Beam With Pride When Shutting Down A Nuclear Plant In The United States, But Aren't
Extremely Concerned About The Nuclear Plants In Islamic And Communist Nations.
26) Think That 'Laying Down Ones Sword And Shield' Happens On the Old Earth.
27) You Think it is all right for you to pick and choose what to spiritualize in scripture,
but the Liberals are not allowed that same luxury. (2 Peter 3:16)
28) You Think 'The View' Is A Spiritual Show.
29) You Think Your Inability And Lack Of Desire To Read Spiritual Messages Is Someone
Elses Fault.
30) You Respond To A Message That A Child Could Understand With, 'So What's Your Point?'
(Matthew 19:13,14)
31) You Think You Can Reject The One Described In John One, But Still Understand What
He Says. (John 1:1-5)
32) You Think You Can Preach 'Another Jesus' (1 Cor. 11), And That Won't Affect The
Corresponding Message Or Your Understanding Of It. (Galatians 1:8,9)
34) Don't Think Your Lifestyle Influences Your Ability To Understand Spiritual Things.
(Romans 1:18)
35) You Think That Because The Watchmaker Isn't Holding The Watch In His Hand That
The Watch Must Have Made Itself.
36) You Think That God Will Excuse You Because You Like To Party More Than Read Life
And Death Messages. (Revelation 3:14-20)
37) You Think You Can Reject The 'Spirit Of Truth' And Still Understand Truth.
(Acts 5:3,4; Acts 13:1,2; John 14:17)
"Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation,
just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way
in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand,
which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."
(2 Peter 3)
"Go to this people and say, "You will be
ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving." 27 For
this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they
might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.' 28 "Therefore
I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!" (Acts 28)
Bj Maxwell
03/16/2008
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