Tell me again
I’ve seen a horrible thought pushed by people on social media that claims churches seek to control people and parents take their kids there to brainwash them. Like I said it’s a horrible thought. If you think the church you go to is trying to brainwash you then you might want to question what they teach and actually read the Bible for yourself.
From the Old Testament to the New God calls the Israelites to remember his mighty deeds. It’s not to brainwash but to remind them when all is hopeless they can turn to God. God was creating a special people to serve Him and be an example to others. That’s the same concept with the Christian. Sure He could have made us all seek Him but He instead gave us free will.
Proverbs 7:1-3
“My son , keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablets of your heart.”
God wants you to learn from Him and wants the best for you.
Deuteronomy 11:18-23
“You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. So that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth. For if you are careful to keep all the commandments which I am commanding you to do , to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways and hold fast to Him then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier than you.”
Deuteronomy 6:24-25
So the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our good always and for our survival, as it is today. It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe all the commandments before the Lord our God, just as he commanded us.”
Proverbs 22:6
“Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
It’s not about brainwashing but about making you better and helping one draw closer to God.
Geoff Moore said it best in his song Tell Me Again.
“Tell me again of the gospel story.
Tell me again how the whole world was lost
How the only begotten with grace so amazing
Gave up his life on an old rugged cross
I don’t want to forget so please ,tell me again.”
Hebrews 11 is full of heroes of the faith and churches and Christians relay these stories to encourage others. By the sharing from the Bible we build up the believers and God uses his word to change others lives and draw them to himself. Brainwashing or controlling is not the goal of the church. Bringing others to Christ and building up the saints is however the goal. There’s an old truthful saying. “Those who refuse to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.” We point to the Bible because the author loves the reader and desires to change their lives. The Bible contains history to study and learn from. It also contains the message of a Creator God who even though we were separated by sin loved us enough to send his son to die an extremely horrible death to save us from our sins.
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