WHY I HATE RELIGION BUT LOVE JESUS
By Jefferson Bethke

What if I told you Jesus came to abolish religion?
What if I told you voting republican really wasn’t his mission?

What if I told you republican doesn’t automatically mean Christian
And just because you call some people blind, doesn’t automatically give you vision

If religion is so great, why has it started so many wars?
Why does it build huge churches, but fails to feed the poor?

Tells single moms God doesn’t love them if they’ve ever had divorced
Yet in the Old Testament God actually calls the religious people whores

Religion might preach grace, but another thing they practice,
Tend to ridicule God’s people; they did it to John the Baptist,

They can’t fix their problems, so they try to mask it,
Not realizing that religion’s like spraying perfume on a casket

See the problem with religion is that it never gets to the core
It’s just behavior modification, like a long list of chores

Let’s dress up the outside, make things look nice and neat
Its funny that’s what they do to mummies, while the corpse rots underneath

Now I ain’t judging I’m just saying quit putting on a fake look,
Cause there’s a problem if people only know that you’re a Christian by your facebook

I mean in every other aspect of life you know that logics unworthy
It’s like saying you play for the Lakers just because you bought a jersey

See this was me too; no one seemed to be on to me
Acting like church kid, while addicted to pornography

See on Sunday, I’d go to church, but on Saturday getting faded
Acting as if I was simply created to have sex and get wasted

See, I spent my whole life building this façade of neatness
But now that I know Jesus, I boast in my weakness

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean,
It’s not a museum for good people; it’s a hospital for the broken

I no longer have to hide my failures I don’t have to hide my sin,
Cause it doesn’t depend on me, it depends on Him.

See because when I was Gods enemy and certainly not a fan,
He looked down and said, “I want that man!”

Which is why Jesus hated religion and for it He called them fools
Don’t you see he’s so much better than just following some rules?

Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the bible, and yes I believe in sin
But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let Him in?

Remember He was called a drunkard and a glutton by “religious men”
But the Son of God never supported self-righteousness, not now, not then.

Now back to the point, one thing I think is vital to mention,
How Jesus and religion are on opposite spectrums,

See, one’s the work of God and one’s a man made invention,
See one is the cure but the other is the infection.

See because Religion says do, Jesus says done.
Religion says slave, Jesus says son,

Religion puts you in bondage but Jesus sets you free.
Religion makes you blind, but Jesus makes you see.

And that’s why religion and Jesus are two different clans,
Religion is man searching for God, but Christianity is God searching for man.

Which is why salvation is freely mine, forgiveness is my own,
Not based on my merits, but Jesus’ obedience alone.

Because he took the crown of thorns, and blood that dripped down his face
He took what we all deserved; I guess that’s why you call it grace.

While being murdered he yelled “father forgive them, they know not what they do”,
Because when he was dangling on that cross, he was thinking of you

And He absorbed all your sin, and he buried it in the tomb,
Which is why I’m kneeling at the cross saying, “come on there’s room.”

So for religion, I hate it; in fact I literally resent it,
Because when Jesus said It is finished, I believe He meant it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY

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Lisa

I think that young man "gets it".