Would you rather spend a weekend with the committee for the enforcement of doctrinal purity or with a group of people picked at random from the phone book? Correct doctrine is important, so why is this such a dreadful prospect? You are called to judge yourself, but not to judge others. The practice of your faith should make you more pleasant company for other people rather than less. How do you perceive others? Don’t you avoid those who are judgmental? Yet isn’t it also difficult to be around those who make no effort to judge themselves? If you judge yourself and not others you will be a vessel prepared for every good work. 

Have you ever been astounded to think how far God is willing to go to accommodate you? Does it amaze you that the one who spoke worlds into existence is willing to meet you where you are? Shouldn’t it be the other way around, that the lesser should conform to the one who is greater? Yes, but you love because he first loved you. His love is greater so he took the initiative to seek you while you were still a sinner. Do you want to be transformed into his image? Then you should make it your purpose and goal to move away from God conforming to you and toward you conforming to God. 

Do you know of cults who claim to follow me, but their doctrine is contrary to the Bible? Have you noticed that they have another characteristic of isolation and exclusiveness, avoiding contact with outsiders and claiming to be the only true way? Have you also found Christian churches with orthodox Biblical doctrine who have this cult-like property of isolation and exclusiveness? I describe my followers collectively as one body with many members. This means that your identification with me and with the Kingdom of God as a whole should be stronger than your affiliation with your denomination. 

Do you think of sleep as a spiritual activity? It is a human necessity and an integral part of my plan for all humanity, so you don’t have to look at it as lost time, or a necessary evil. Yet to see it as more than a limitation you must look beyond the superficial to see what transcendent meaning it represents. It is a time of refreshing for you in every way, including physical, emotional, and spiritual. If you are open to the idea, I can speak to you while you are asleep, and you may be in a better position to receive it then than you are during the daytime. Have you noticed that everyone in the Bible took their dreams seriously? Do you?