A Hyper-Charismatic Guide to Losing your Mind

(Steven Kozar – Messed Up Church) If you want to abandon your Christian faith and become mentally unstable, just follow these simple steps:

- “It all starts with a Dream! A God-Sized Dream!” To get started, you must believe that God expects you to dream up some outlandish desire in order to accomplish your Destiny. Because if you attempt to “do the impossible,” God will miraculously answer your prayers and thus “get all the glory.” You must take risks, step out in faith, and do something impossible.

You then step out in faith and do something really stupid. (Often, this involves giving money to someone who teaches this stuff.)
Next, this ridiculous thing you’ve attempted doesn’t work and you’ve got big problems. (Wow, what a surprise.)
Instead of admitting your big mistake, you will now focus all of your attention on the future and the great things that you’ll accomplish after you get your breakthrough (your “Destiny”). Because the finished work of Christ dying on the cross to pay for our sins happened a long time ago, you will forget about it. Christianity gradually becomes a magic wand you keep waving around in order to get God to do stuff, and the “holy spirit” will demand more and more attention as he continually confuses you, embarrasses you and demands that you become more hungry, desperate and broken. He also wants you to be on fire.
At this point you’ll latch onto all of the sermons about fighting battles, getting a fresh new word from God, and fending off demons, pythons, and sneaky squids. “The devil knows about your Dream Destiny Thingy and he wants to stop you!” You take your last few bucks to buy yet another book/DVD/CD/conference ticket, hoping to learn the “secret” to getting your breakthrough; you know, the breakthrough you wouldn’t even need if you hadn’t done something stupid… View article →