An unexpected Children’s Church message

I was in the children’s church this morning and noticed that the chalk board said, “Have it your way”. That was a surprising phrase to see on the chalk board at children’s church. While the modern American church would never be so bold as to put it in those exact words, that is the current theology of much of the modern American church. While some find the 1980’s Burger King mentality appealing, the Bible says this kind of thinking is dangerous. Romans chapters 1 and 2 warn us that we can be so persistently rebellious and insistent to hold onto our sin, that God will allow us to have it our way. However, that permission to have our own way is not a blessing from God. Any time a church tells you that you can have God and have it your way, they are deceiving you. God calls us to turn from our ways… to be forgiven through the shed blood of Jesus, and to receive the Holy Spirit who will help us forsake our past ways and become a new creation. In doing so, we are saved. To insist on having our own way is the broad way that leads to destruction.

I do not even need to ask. I am certain the chalkboard was a warning to the kids about what happens when we insist on having our own way. If only more pastors were less concerned about being accepted by a lost society, and more concerned about the lost accepting Jesus and His ways. I am sure our kids received the truth that we must not seek to hear God say, “Have it your way” but that we must say to God, “Have it Your way.”