“Yes,” said Jesus, “what sorrow also awaits you experts in religious law! For you crush people with unbearable religious demands, and you never lift a finger to ease the burden” (Luke 11:46; NLT).
Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy (Luke 12:1; NIV).
Not every Christian group
Is right for me –
It has to be okay
To disagree,
And, if I have issues
With its creed,
I won’t conform to rules
I don’t believe.
Gender apartheid?
Only straights allowed?
There must be room
For all those out and proud.
Authority gripped firmly
In men’s hands?
A jail for women
Bound by their commands.
When dogma is, at last,
Too great a load,
God saves my faith,
And gives me a new road!
You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you (Psalm 81:7; NLT).
Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert (Isaiah 43:19; NKJV).