If you really want to ruin your perspective of the church or even your experience with church, make it all about you. The more you care about your own desires and views, the more you’re going to be dissatisfied in an organization that’s not, inevitably, centered on you. Most of us have been told tens of thousands of times that we’re special and that we deserve all we’d ever want in life. While that sentiment makes for cute greeting cards and coffee mugs, it’s just not true. I

We’ve all been fed lines about what our greatest enemy could be. Everything from drugs, to alcohol, to demons, and even the ultimate adversary of the Devil has worn the title of “greatest enemy”. It’s tough to consider that you’d want to do something good and there’d be resistance to it. Why wouldn’t the whole world want you to get better, to do the right thing? (see John16:33) Right now you have an enemy that could derail your capacity to follow Jesus. And that enemy is read