The River Church of New Jersey

In the midstof our current crisis, we have various institutions claiming the promises theycould never keep.  Usually, theirsales pitch goes something like – ‘if you give us authority, we will take careof you.’  But, we always have toremember that if we buy into their sweet talk they will come back toenslave us.  It is no differentfrom the idols our superstitious ancestors worshipped.  The only difference is that we’ve movedfrom worshipping our religious institutions [pre-modern] to worshipping oursecular institutions [modern]. It’s quite amusing that those who loathorganized religion fall down and worship in the presence of organizedgovernment, organized education, organized media, organized community, organizedsports and on and on…  We are soagainst institution, and yet, we have never been so institutionalized!

As for me, Iknow who my GOD Is; and he is the only One who will receive my allegiance andloyalty.  As for human hero – I amextremely suspicious of those who claim that they’ll take care of me.  The ones who earn my hearing aren’t theones who claim they know what’s good for me. No, the ones who earn my hearingare the ones who teach me the price of being a free man and challenge me to gothrough the tougher and often lonely road.  In other words, the real heroes in my life are the ones whohelp me to become my own hero.