Greetings friends, I just published a new blog post (excerpt and link below) - go check it out and feel free to share it far and wide.
Much love,
Glenn || PATREON | BUY ME A COFFEE
“One of the subtle lies I picked up during my time within Evangelicalism was that at my core I am a bad person and there's nothing I can do to make it otherwise. As Jeremiah says, “the heart is deceitful above all things.” I was told that on my own and apart from God, I could no good thing.
I’m bad.
I’m evil.
I’m sinful.
Like the song says, "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me."
This teaching came across in lots of different ways. Sometimes it was very much "IN YOUR FACE" while sometimes it was much more covert, almost subliminal. And sometimes it was wrapped in nice, Christian language like "God loves you (the sinner), but hates the sin that is at the core of your being, your sin nature" ... but, whatever the vehicle and whatever the level of intensity, the message was always the same:
You are bad.
You are evil.
You are sinful.
Your sin must be punished.
I'm reading a book by Mel Robbins called "The High 5 Habit" (you should read it - sounds cheesy and dumb, but it's far from it) and in the book she explains how science tells us that something happens to your brain when you hear this sort of thing over and over again, when “I am bad” becomes your mantra …”