Alliance Bible Church - Mequon, Wisconsin - Catchphrase Christianity - Part 2: Let Go and Let God

“Let go and let God” is a motto often shared with someone who's struggling or burdened by a difficult situation. It sounds like a nice idea and is often said in a kind-hearted way. However, what does it really mean to “let go and let God,” and is that a piece of advice a Christian should follow? We’ll explore this and more in Part 2 of "Catchphrase Christianity." Two problems that this advice presents and one solution to embrace: 1) Problem 1: Overconfidence in ourselves. 2) Problem 2: Under...

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Broadcast on: 17 Jul 2022
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“Let go and let God” is a motto often shared with someone who's struggling or burdened by a difficult situation. It sounds like a nice idea and is often said in a kind-hearted way. However, what does it really mean to “let go and let God,” and is that a piece of advice a Christian should follow? We’ll explore this and more in Part 2 of "Catchphrase Christianity."

Two problems that this advice presents and one solution to embrace:
1) Problem 1: Overconfidence in ourselves.
2) Problem 2: Underconfidence in God’s means.
3) Solution: Cooperation with God in obedience that leads to assurance.

Text: Philippians 2:12-14

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Every day we hear Christian catchphrases, a kind of Christian ease, if you will. Made up of slogans, compressed ideas about God or faith, and we drop into everyday conversations about life. Catchphrases like, "The devil made me do it." Or, "Jesus, take the wheel." And after all, what would Jesus do? What do we really mean when we say that? Well, let's take a look at some common Christian catchphrases and what the Bible has to say. Well, you know, one of the tricky things about catchphrases is that they are so memorable. They're so portable that we just use them again and again without even thinking about it, right? They just kind of sort of stick with us and follow us around wherever we're going. For example, and help me out here. No pain, no pain, right?

It's so easy, a child, about 50% on that one, uh-oh. And what about its raining cats and, you know, I talk about catchphrase that we use without ever thinking about what in the world does this mean? Or how do we get there, right? But in reality being memorable, being portable, that's just part of what it means to actually be a catchphrase. And as we use a catchphrase, we use a slogan, you know, just over and over again. It begins to become a staple of how we talk about things and how we also think about things. And over time catchphrases, they can become more and more detached from how they were originally used in this morning, the Christian catchphrase, the axiom, if you will, that I want us to take a look at is one that I think fits that bill perfectly. It's probably one that if you're a Christian in here that you've used before, you've maybe been exhorted by somebody else to remember before at some other time. And so realizing that a fairly frequent one, I recognize we might be stepping on a few more toes this morning and going through this, or at least a stronger likelihood that that might happen. But you know, as that other famous catchphrase goes,

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