Is Your Self-Righteousness Destroying Your Faith?

About this episode

This episode explores how self-righteousness can hinder faith and invites listeners to embrace God's grace instead.

So many people are trapped behind religious walls, keeping their distance from others and exhausting themselves trying to maintain an image of "purity" and "holiness". In this message, explore three diagnostic questions that reveal the "inner Pharisee" in all of us and discover Jesus’ invitation to leave the fortress of self-righteousness for a table of mercy. Learn how to trade your heavy demands for others and your own religious performance for a life defined by God’s fresh, daily grace that meets you in your brokenness. Scripture: Matthew 9:9-13 New to Living Word Community Church? We’d love to meet you: https://lwccyork.com/new To give to Living Word or our partners: https://lwccyork.com/give Need Prayer? We’d love to pray with you and for you: https://lwccyork.com/prayer Stay connected to Living Word and our digital ministry! Download our church app on iOS or Android • https://subsplash.com/livingwordcommunitychurch/app Website: https://lwccyork.com Church Online: http://lwccyork.live Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lwccyork Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lwccyork

Topics covered

• self-righteousness
• faith
• mercy
• religion
• grace
• spirituality

Keywords

• self-righteousness
• faith
• mercy
• religion
• grace
• Pharisee
• spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Living Word Community Church

Books & works: Matthew 9:9-13

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