076 - Betty Byte: How We Can Follow Jesus by Defying Expectations (Manuals)

Hello, Bettys and Jacks. Mary and Alexis continue their discussion about manuals (you might want to go back to Episode 15 and Episode 75 of The Bettys Podcast) by talking about another ‘leading man’ . . . Jesus. The Old Testament was literally a manual on how to worship, and when Jesus of Nazareth showed up, He did not look the way the elders expected Him to. He did things differently, and He ruffled a lot of feathers.

 

Are we so focused on the checklists and the details of our manuals that we don’t see the big picture? Mary was reminded of this scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, where Cameron stares at the painting (“A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat) and gets more and more focused on the tiny brush strokes on the canvas than on the whole work of art.

 

We believe that “by their fruits ye shall know them” (Matt 7:20). When you choose to live according to a certain manual (a religion, a dogma, etc.), we should know that we’re not going to do it perfectly. We all make mistakes, and we are free to try out different manuals, to find what fits. And if we don’t find a new one that we like better, we can always come back to what we know, and rewrite or update our own.

 

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