Rod’s Top Ten List of Things Christians Got…

ROD’S TOP TEN LIST OF THINGS CHRISTIANS GOT BECAUSE THEY WENT BEYOND THE SCRIPTURES

10. Things Christians got because they went beyond the Scriptures: kneelers!

9. Things Christians got because they went beyond the Scriptures: “survival of the fittest” as a statement of morality, just like in American Idol.

8. Things Christians got because they went beyond the Scriptures: church pews!! [Luke 12:37: “will have them recline ….” (NIV)] [How many pews do you see where the minister is supposed to sit, hmmm?]

7. Things Christians got because they went beyond the Scriptures: church mortgages! [Rom 13:8: “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another,…” (NIV)]

6. Things Christians got because they went beyond the Scriptures: church board meetings! [Titus 1:5-9]

5. Things Christians got because they went beyond the Scriptures: ear dandruff! [2 Tim. 4:3]

4. Things Christians got because they went beyond the Scriptures: door to door sales persons! [2 Tim. 3:6]

3. Things Christians got because they went beyond the Scriptures: no more pot luck dinners!! [1 Cor. 11:21]

2. Things Christians got because they went beyond the Scriptures: leftovers!! [1 Cor. 8:10]

1. Things Christians got because they went beyond the Scriptures: very boring baptisms!! [Acts 8:36: As they traveled along the road, they came to some water…Acts 8:38: Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water…” (NIV) – no where does it say they went down into the tiled chlorinated tub of heated water!]