HaHa, "Insert foot into mouth."
Posted on: March 28, 2008, at 11:01:30pm

I was again researching rock band websites and what not and found a blog by Andrew Schwab of Project 86 that made me give a silent Oh, crap. (It is almost midnight.) Anyway, he was talking about a book he had read by a very well known "Christian" author who has had mass success with his wide smile on the cover of his self help books. The book he referred to basically said that God wants you to be happy and to have an absolutely perfect life here on earth. After I read the Schwab article I realized that what I wrote in my last post may be read that I was saying exactly what the smiling author wrote.

Sorry if that's what you thought I meant. It's not. And I want to apologize to everyone for making that huge of a mistake. To quote Schwab, "Notice Jesus never said “Follow this simple formula to unlock your potential within.” If my desire in coming to God is motivated by what he can give me, or how he can make me feel, then my ultimate desire is self-focused, rather than Christ-focused. If I treat God as the divine genie, or the eternal “life-improver,” then I think I have missed the point entirely." The real reason for coming to Christ is not to be happy, as I sort-of said earlier, it is to worship. Now, is happiness a side effect of worship, I believe it is. That is what I tried to say earlier. Okay, glad to get that all cleared up.