Mythbusters...

Tonight at The Attic we started a new series called Mythbusters: Busting Myths about God and What it Means to Follow Him. I am excited about this teaching series and what God is going to do in the lives of our students through it...We talked tonight about how God doesn't love us anymore when we are good. Basically, there is this myth, especially among church people, that the more good we do, the better we are, the more God loves us. Sounds nice, but it's not biblical at all...The Bible teaches us that God's love for us is not based on how good we are. It teaches that we cannot be good enough for God to love us more and we cannot be bad enough for God to love us less. God loves us. Period. End of sentence. End of story. God loves us and it is based on nothing we've done and on everything Christ did on the cross...What a freeing thought! So long guilt and frustration that come from trying to be good enough to please God. So long to feeling bad after we've failed because we haven't performed well enough for God. God's love for me isn't based on my performance or my behavior. He loves me regardless...That's the message of the cross...