Do Christians Have Too Many Rules?
The Mark Driscoll Podcast
Mark Driscoll
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We tend to get most legalistic, rule-based controlling in an effort to what we think is lovingly |
| 0:07.6 | protect the people we care about the most, right? You experience some Right? |
| 0:18.0 | You experience some pain, some hurt, some trauma, some loss. You don't want that to happen. |
| 0:20.0 | So you think, well, somebody needs to be in control and rather than God you nominate yourself. |
| 0:24.9 | And there needs to be some rules and rather than God you make your own. |
| 0:29.1 | And there needs to be someone who is in authority and rather than God you nominate yourself. |
| 0:34.3 | And the motive is I love them and I'm trying to protect them. |
| 0:38.1 | But ultimately then you become the one who harms them. This happens with people we love the most like a church. People that have |
| 0:47.2 | been through church hurt and oftentimes the people who hurt you in church |
| 0:50.3 | they're religious people. They have some own trauma or abuse or pain in their |
| 0:55.9 | past and they've not healed from it and so then they treat you in a way that is |
| 1:00.1 | unhealthy. And what can even happen in a church is that over time, |
| 1:06.4 | hurt people that are fearful and not healed up. |
| 1:09.6 | They just keep adding more rules |
| 1:11.6 | until it literally turns it into a prison. |
| 1:16.6 | I talked to a pastor, he said, show me your policies. |
| 1:19.1 | I'll show you your pains. |
| 1:24.0 | Something bad happened in the church. Let's make a policy, a rule, a law, so it never happens again. |
| 1:27.3 | Well, the more pain, the more policies, the more years, |
| 1:29.7 | the bigger the manual. |
| 1:31.8 | The secular version of this is called an HOA. How many of you have been in a |
| 1:38.0 | homeowners association and at first it starts off with a few things you can |
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