Are We Making This Too Hard?
ARE WE MAKING THIS TOO HARD?
By Benjamin Raven Pressley
All of my life I have observed how many religious institutions have kept Christ just out of the reach of people. Preachers scream out His name from the pulpit followed by ‘Just As I Am’ and people come to the altar. Jesus gloriously saves all who come. Then the bidding for your soul begins. “Yes you are saved”, they say, “but now you gotta…” And then it begins. I have been there, done that and oh, buddy do I have the T-shirt to prove it! I remember when I got saved and filled with the Holy Spirit how free I was, indescribably free. I felt so clean, unfettered. Then it was you have to do this, you have to do that, you have to cut off this and grow out that and stop doing this. (more…)