How can we Disobey Jesus

Obeying Christ

How can we disobey Jesus (John 14:15-21)? There are many ways. We can quote church literature more than Jesus. We can prefer popular opinion or psychological definitions of acceptable lifestyles or aberrant behavior more than the teachings of Jesus. We can redefine specific sins along modern cultural lines rather than historically biblical terms. We can become so inclusive that no sin is any longer a reason for exclusion from church or kingdom. In addition to that we can add multiple rules and traditions of mere men like the Pharisees did, which so overshadow the commands of Jesus that they fade to become mere background noise. Or, we can use Jesus commands as mere springboards, given token gesture as we spring off onto our own agendas, rather than seek to plumb the depths of what he envisioned for the church.