Embellished With Religious Lace?

Advertising is created by gifted truth-stretchers, exaggerators, embellishers.

The aim of advertising is to:
1) Get your attention. 2) Emphasize the desirable qualities of the product. 3) Get you to want it / want to buy it

Religion attempts to advertise itself to God.

Religion works to get God’s attention, emphasizes how good it is, tries to get God to accept it…

Grace is different.

Grace says: you already have God’s attention and you don’t need an ad campaign!

Grace says: you don’t need to put on a show, highlighting how “good” you are.

Grace says: you are accepted, right now.

Grace says: you can talk to God – raw, real, honest and unembellished.

Grace changes everything… including how we pray.

“When you come before God, don’t turn that into a theatrical production.” (Matthew 6.5 MSG)

“You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.” (Matthew 5.34 MSG)