Frisbee Faux Pas

Deuce loves his old beat up frisbee more than anything. He loves to fetch it, loves to carry it around, and loves to chew on it. He hasn't been able to completely destoy it yet...until now. While I was cooking dinner the other night, I heard Deuce in the other room chewing on it, but didn't really think anything of it. I should have.

Does this dog look like he feels guilty?



He should!...



Dirty little dog...making more work for me.

It's already Friday! The week has been really good. Last night we had Gospel Group at our house and I made Granny's peach cobbler. It turned out really tasty!




David and I's thought for the week has to do with something called "functional righteousness." Functional righteousness is something we've been talking about in Gospel Group and is something that we do when we find righteousness in what we do instead of confronting our actual brokeness. This is a part of "pretending"--minimizing our own sin. Here are some examples of things that can give us a sense of personal credibility: job righteousness (I am a hard worker, so God will reward me), family righteousness (I "do things right" in my family), theological righteousness (I have better theology than others), intellectual righteousness (I am better read, more education etc. than others), schedule righteousness (I am self-disciplined etc.), tolerance righteousness (I am more open-minded than others).

None of these, in and of themselves are necessarily bad. It is good to have solid theology, it is good to be disciplined, it is good to do things right in your family etc. However, it is NOT right to very subtly replace the view of our own sinfullness with these things. They are things that can creep in without us even knowing, which means we need to stay Christ-centered, with an appropriate view of God's ultimate holiness and our sinfulness. However, we also must trust, in faith, that God is deeply satisfied with us through Jesus and we cannot "perform" enough to be saved. Our righteousness comes through Jesus alone and our "work" for God should be an outpouring of our love and gratefullness to Him.