They Said Whaaat?!!? Everything Happens for a Reason

At first glance, this seems okay to say – of course Christians should love people and abhor sin – but what if this phrase force people to see people as sinners rather than as neighbors?

In an effort to explain why bad things have happened, some people will claim that they didn’t have enough faith as if they had the power over a situation based on a certain level of optimism or hope. This is one of the things Christians need to stop saying immediately. Jesus is the author and…

We like to use this phrase to encourage people when they are going through a difficult time, but it’s based on a passage of Scripture that has been misused and misinterpreted. Listen as Pastor Reggie Byrd dives deep on this phrase Christians should stop saying immediately.

Well-meaning Christians trying to comfort people in mourning have used this phrase that causes harm to the person they are speaking to reveals their own theological misunderstandings. Listen in to help clarify what the Bible says about Angels and what happens to humans when we die.

We want to be able to understand and explain everything…even the unexplainable. So as a short cut, we say, “Everything happens for a reason.” Unfortunately that phrase often blames God for our difficult circumstances and presumes that God caused bad things to happen to us or others for some reason that we have to sort…

We have to stop assuming the authority that God has given each of us a special revelation that goes unfiltered through the community. We believe that God can (and does) speak to people but that are certain parameters for how God does it and how God communicates to people and all of it can be…

This phrase is damaging because it fails to consider that no-one reads the Bible in the same way, nor do they understand it’s meaning in the same way. Furthermore, the Bible should be the beginning of conversations, not the end.