A misconception about Christianity...

God: Well Laura, you have done some pretty dodgy stuff in your life. 


Laura: I know God, but look at the good stuff I've done, what do you think about them?


God:Hmm yes, there is some pretty good stuff in there. Hang on, let me count up how many good things you have done, and compare them to the bad things you have done.


Laura: I think I have made it by the skin of my teeth.


God: ... 1399,1400. Yup, your in, your good deeds have outweighed the bad. Well done- You have passed the test of life. 

Thankfully, not so! 

The belief that our entrance to heaven depends on our good deeds, is a complete and utter myth. 

There would not be a single person who would be able to reach heaven if it depended on our goodness. Why?

Because of the simple fact that we are human. Through Adam and Eve, sin entered the world. They decided to turn their back on God's ways and turn to their own ways therefore a curse was upon the human race.


So even if we do all the good in the world the fact is it doesn't matter-we are cursed. our hearts do not want God first, they want self first and God later...maybe.

 But why is self such a bad thing? 

 C.S Lewis wrote “we are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”


You see by thinking that OUR way is best, we are missing out an this amazing opportunity to have a relationship with the one who created the universe, the one who knows us best and the one who created us! 


Can you picture that child choosing to play in a dirty slum instead of having the joy of experiencing the sea, the waves, the sand and its glorious freedom. I know what option I would choose...


So lets abolish this misconception of "good deeds=heaven" and start to wrap our minds around the fact that it is about having a real relationship with and experiencing the living God!

He took our sin, all the bad stuff we have ever done. The one who was sinless became SIN because he LOVED us so much. Are our "good deeds" more sufficient than his death?
 We all have the option to chose whether to play in the slum with the mud, or to experience the glorious freedom of the beech.

Life is not a test to see how well we do. Jesus said...

" I have come so you they may have life and have it to the full." John 10v10