Appendix D: Myths All of Us Must Unlearn

Myth #1: “Church is a building.”

No building appears in the NT.

Myth #2: “You need clergy to grow spiritually.”

Jesus forbade titles, and clergy, but Gifts are organic and very helpful. They make no claims, and demand nothing, and do not exercise authority as the gentiles do.

Myth #3: “Sunday morning is the most important part of the Christian week.”

Zero verses say or imply anything like this. Several verses blow this idea up as totally unlike Jesus or His Word and Plan.

Myth #4: “Small groups are basically what the early church did.”

Not remotely.

They lived together daily.

Myth #5: “Programs make disciples.”

Life makes disciples.

Myth #6: “You can follow Jesus without daily relationships.”

Impossible. See Hebrews 3:12–14.

Myth #7: “Youth groups keep teens Christian.”

Myth #8: “You can love God and love the world.”

1 John 2:15 and literally 100 other verses say, “No.”

Myth #9: “Adopting the world’s ways and tactics with the world’s music, clothing, dancing, and fads is the way to keep teens safe.”

See the answer to Myth #8… That is dangerous ground to tread on.

Even at “best” that is feeding babes in Christ a cotton-candy life that is unsustainable. A flesh-driven system is no better than a rules-driven system.

It is only His Ecosystem that unleashes the driving force of the Power of an Indestructible Life. And that Ecosystem is walking together in the light, in vulnerability and courage to lay bare the motives of the heart in ourselves and one another.