Answer in the comments section below:
1. What is the difference between being religious and being right with God?
2. Why is hypocrisy harmful to the church?
3. In what subtle ways does Satan try to corrode your relationship with Christ?
4. How can you guard against Satan's attacks?
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More Scripture on developing a relationship with Christ:
Matthew 12:50
John 1:12
John 15:5
Romans 8: 15-17
2 Corinthians 5:17
Philippians 3:8
Any verses you would add?
5 comments:
1. What is the difference between being religious and being right with God?
There are different kinds of "Religion", different rules, different gods, different opinions... Where as being right with god is being a christian, having faith, loving people.
2. Why is hypocrisy harmful to the church?
I don't even know what the word means!
3. In what subtle ways does Satan try to corrode your relationship with Christ?
Books, internet, talking to about random things.
4. How can you guard against Satan's attacks?
Believe in god, read the bible, fight back
1. Religion seems to be about traditions and things you do because of what your forefathers did. Being right with God is doing what God says to do. And doing it because God says to do it, not because your forefathers did it.
2. Ummm have to think a bit more.....
3. I mostly get the lie that I'm not really saved
4. Read the Bible, pray and stay in community
The word hypocrisy comes from the Greek ὑπόκρισις (hypokrisis), which means "Jealous" "play-acting", "acting out", "coward" or "dissembling".[3] The word hypocrite is from the Greek word ὑποκρίτης (hypokrites), the agentive noun associated with υποκρίνομαι (hypokrinomai κρίση, "judgment" »κριτική (kritiki), "critics") presumably because the performance of a dramatic text by an actor was to involve a degree of interpretation, or assessment.
Alternatively, the word is an amalgam of the Greek prefix hypo-, meaning "under", and the verb krinein, meaning "to sift or decide". Thus the original meaning implied a deficiency in the ability to sift or decide. This deficiency, as it pertains to one's own beliefs and feelings, informs the word's contemporary meaning.[4]
Whereas hypokrisis applied to any sort of public performance (including the art of rhetoric), hypokrites was a technical term for a stage actor and was not considered an appropriate role for a public figure. In Athens in the 4th century BC, for example, the great orator Demosthenes ridiculed his rival Aeschines, who had been a successful actor before taking up politics, as a hypokrites whose skill at impersonating characters on stage made him an untrustworthy politician. This negative view of the hypokrites, perhaps combined with the Roman disdain for actors, later shaded into the originally neutral hypokrisis. It is this later sense of hypokrisis as "play-acting", i.e., the assumption of a counterfeit persona, that gives the modern word hypocrisy its negative connotation.
This says it better though....
Hypocrisy is the state of pretending to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have.[1] Hypocrisy involves the deception of others and is thus a kind of lie.[1]
Hypocrisy is not simply failing to practice those virtues that one preaches. Samuel Johnson made this point when he wrote about the misuse of the charge of "hypocrisy" in Rambler No. 14:
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions, without having yet obtained the victory, as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage, or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others, those attempts which he neglects himself.[2]
1 being "religious" tends to mean you follow all the rules but don't really understand why. Being right with God is were you have a relationship with Him and you don't sin or try not to because you know that God doesn't like it
2 hypocrisy is harmful because it gives birth to the idea that the hypocrite is better than everyone else because they cover-up the mess in their lives.
3 through movies, books, and fun things, he tries to convince me that they are worth ALL my time not just some of it.
4 by focusing back on the Bible, by removing the distractions, at least for a little while, until they seem less appealing, by refusing to let the "other stuff" take over my life
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