Loathsome Clichés!
The longer I'm a Christian, the more I become annoyed all the silly cliché sayings that we use... Many of these figures of evangelical speech sound silly and most are not based on Scripture. What's worse, is these clichés have a very bad influence on the theology of laity. I've observed that the theological framework of some people is based more upon these oft repeated clichés than anything actually found in Scripture!
Here's a few of the ones I hate the most and I've included a brief explanation of why:
1. "Don't put God in a box."
Reason I don't like it:
God won't fit in any box: He's infinite. This silly saying is often used by people who want to justify some aberrant practice or something that they want to blame on God, but don't have any Scripture to back it with.
2. "Let Go and Let God."
Reason I don't like it:
God is Sovereign, we don't "let" Him do anything. He does what He wants, when He wants. Even is human activities seem to hinder something God's doing, it's only because God allows it for some reason known only to Him.
3. "Accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour."
Reason I don't like it:
What Bible verse is this based upon anyway? The Lord Jesus isn't the one who needs our acceptance: we need His!! Repent and Believe the Gospel is what we should be telling sinners!!!
Okay, there's my top three. There's many more I could list, but I want to let my readers weigh in on the subject.
Feel free to submit your most hated cliché saying(s) in my combox!
Be sure to include the reason why you don't like the cliché!!
4 comments:
Can we nominate the infinitely loathsome "Ask Jesus into your heart"? Or, "He made a decision for Christ"? These are two of the most unbiblical, heretical, and destructively damning sentences in all of Christendom.
There are a bunch more I can think of, but I don't want to spoil anybody else's fun :)
"God is a gentleman, and won't go where He's not invited."
[insert puking noise here]
Ask Moses, herding sheep for his father-in-law when God commissioned him at the burning bush. Ask King Nebucadnezzer (sp?)who had no say about living like a cow for some time and then worshipping the Lord. Ask his replacement, Darius, who was weighed and found wanting. Ask the inhabitants of Jericho, who among them invited God? Ask Saul of Tarsus, whose business trip was rudely interrupted on the way to Damascus. The list could go on, and then end with me, if need be, on whom God barged in, November 1989, as I slept on a cold, hardwood floor in eastern Idaho, just minding my own business.
I thank God for being rude.
"There's a God-shaped whole in all of us."
"Repeat after me (followed by some form of the sinners prayer"
"Jesus loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life"
I don't like the phrase "House of God" being used when referring to a building.
The martyred brother Stephen said
"However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says: HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH IS THE FOOTSTOOL OF MY FEET; WHAT KIND OF HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME?' says the Lord,'OR WHAT PLACE IS THERE FOR MY REPOSE?" Acts 7:48-49
The only one God ever allowed to build a physical house for Him was Solomon and that house is no longer needed and was destroyed in 70 A.D.
Jeff
http://whatsbuggingjeff.blogspot.com/
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