What side-effects does a person living under the false 'gospel' experience? Religious duty and the constant pressure to be more spiritual and sin less comes with long-term adverse consequences. [By the way, a Christian doesn't sin less by becoming obsessed with sinning less.]
SIDE EFFECTS:
- Spiritual pressure to measure up to expectations. ,
- Spiritual heaviness. ,
- You suspect God, is in fact, not really pleased with you.
- You're constantly being asked by leadership to be more committed.
- Every message is about getting you to do something, or to stop doing something.
- The leadership is more concerned with managing people's sin than releasing a new life that is now within them.
- No one ever talks about the heart, and when they do, it is with suspicion -- even in the case of the believer.
What have you experienced when you've encountered a substitute "gospel?"