This is a quote I pulled from a video of Rich Mullins taken shortly before he died. He was talking about devotional books with commentary, and he said,
"One of things that continues to blow me away is how they say all the wrong things. Your Sunday School teachers aren’t gonna tell you what the scriptures mean because we want God to inspire confidence, and what God wants to inspire is fear. We want god to give us all kinds of assurances and what God wants to give us is faith. We want to become healthy and prosperous and unaffected by the world, and He wants us to experience the world in a way that will eventually kill us.
So we ask for all the wrong things and we get all the wrong things. I think that’s why it’s so hard for a rich person to enter heaven, because they’ve been going the wrong way for so long it’s hard to turn around. You get awfully big when you have all that assurance and all that confidence and all that jazz. It’s just hard to give it up to get into where you want to go.
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