Temple Thinking vs. Jesus Thinking
After several months of being without a laptop or way to blog about the things Jesus, and my pastor, have been teaching me, I am so excited to share with you the one thing that was the most mind-blowing and eye-opening for me. It's from a recent Northpoint Church series called Brand New that our pastor shared last month. The reason behind the name "Brand New" is because Jesus came to Earth with a brand new covenant. Yet, so many of us are still trying to live under the old covenant, and the old rules. Andy talks about something called the Temple Model, and explains how our thoughts about God and Christianity have been influenced heavily by it. So, what is the temple model? Basically, it is a model of religion that most of today's churches are founded on, where sacred men, in sacred places, with sacred texts, do sacred things. And there are usually scared, or scarred, followers who don't know any better and are therefore very dependent on these sacred men. These me