
Feelings & Following (A Small Rant)
One of my mentors in college told me this:
“Feelings lie. Sometimes you’ll go through seasons where your ‘feeler’ just get messed up. It’s a lot better to follow your ‘knower’ than your ‘feeler’.”
One of the things that thoroughly frustrates me about modern, American Christianity is the overindulgence in emotional experience. It’s rather unfortunate that we, as Christians under the guise of “I feel like God wants me to …”, are repropagating the old saying “if it feels good,