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| 12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee |
How should we approach burdensome and overbearing church leadership? In Matthew 23:1-12 Jesus addressed that in the religious leadership of his day. The scribes and Pharisees sat in seats of authority which had descended from Moses. Jesus encouraged his hearers to follow what they said when they cited the Bible, but not their interpretations which were fatally flawed. Why? Because their interpretations and applications of the scriptures tied up heavy burdens upon people and they used their positions not for service but for show and prestige. The Pharisees began with good intentions, to return Israel to covenant faithfulness so that they could be blessed and freed from oppressive Roman domination. This is a warning to all who would lead churches — that Pharisaic tendency exists in all of us to turn the freedom of God’s way into a heavy burden.
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