The reason religion is so damaging is because men take a kernel of truth and wrap it in a bunch of rules that are designed to give themselves power and authority. All the way back in Leviticus when God first give Moses the 10 Commandments, it wasn't long before men had wrapped a gift God gave His people in a bunch of rules man created to give themselves power. Rules that Jesus got in trouble for breaking many times. He broke them because they were never God’s laws in the first place, they were man’s rules. Rules they never had a right to make in the first place.
In Love & Respect, Emerson Eggerichs takes a kernel of truth and wraps it in a massive shell of his own design. Today, we dig down deep to find that kernel of truth and unwrap it from all of the packaging placed on it by Eggerichs.
Many thanks to Sarah D. for pointing me to Sheila Gregoire’s podcast about the study Eggerichs mentions in his book, which you can find here.
I have a new Instagram account just for this podcast, which you can find at @robinthinkspod and I’ll have a Twitter account soon under the same name!
Love & Respect Part 3: The Kernel of Truth