DISLIKES

We all have those things that we truly enjoy and others we just down right hate. I’ve never seen anything in scripture to success where have to be the same.

And that is a good thing to me if we don’t like our personal dislikes becomes a form of gospel. Seen that happen at times.

Not about important things either. More like personal preferences. Which is not always a bad choice.

Providing we don’t let those details become something we claim the Lord sees as wrong. So often that is not the case.

I remember being in this church with a very large group of elderly members. They had grown up in the depression.

So there were a number of things that to them were considered sinful. Such as dancing. For when they grew up, dancing was associated with dance halls.

In those times these were places fill with drinking and other activities that church folks didn’t see as acceptable. So in their frame of reference dancing was wrong.

But to those who didn’t live in those times, dancing was not seen as a problem. They just saw it as a fun activity.

Now in the scriptures dancing is not a sin. But it doesn’t prevent them from viewing it that way.

The down side is how it fails to impress. How it takes away from people’s credibility. And it undermines the church’s message.


There are so many small things like that, which are do’s and don’ts the Lord never mentioned. Keeping them as laws in no way impresses the Lord.

Sadly for such who do this they will always place their own values above all else. And nothing will keep them from expecting others to do the same.

Which will only help to label the church as narrow minded. The more others see this as true the less the message of Christ gets the hearing it deserves.

Pity to many care more about their small preferences than the truth. They peddle their bias as fact.

God is never honored in the process. And to that end the Kingdom of Heaven is not seen as intended.

Just becomes another thing to be ignored.