Watch the video below by Steve McVey, Christian Religion Lie #65 We Should Ask Ourselves “What Would Jesus Do?” and my comments follow!
WWJD bracelets… bumper stickers… t-shirts… mugs…. doggie sweaters… even tattoos. You see WWJD everywhere. It stands for “What Would Jesus Do?”
Doesn’t it sound good?
Doesn’t it sound noble?
Just ask yourself in every situation “What would Jesus Do?” and you’ll end up being a pretty good Christian!
What a whopper this one is!
What is my problem with this saying?
For one, it just seems geeky! haha 
But seriously, here’s why it’s NOT Biblical…
The problem with this type of thinking is it makes you think of Jesus like a guy from the past who was a cool guy, a nice guy, who did a lot of “good things”… but NOW he’s dead.
Now all you should do is look back in time, use the Bible or whatever to see how Jesus acted and think “if Jesus was still around…“
When the truth of the matter is: Jesus IS still around!
He’s in the Spirit of every believer in Him.
The Bible procalims this wonderful, AMAZING fact, that we believers are IN Christ… and He is IN us.
1 Cor 6:17 says it like this:
“But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.”
So instead of thinking “What would Jesus Do?” with this acronym you could instead think…
“Watch what Jesus Does!”
(credit to Steve McVey for introducing me to that turn of this phrase!)
Because the Christian life is NOT about “Acting” like God… “imitating” Christ… or trying to be a “good person”… NO!
That Christian life is never satisfying. It leads to feeling like you’re never enough, incomplete, basically like “being a Christian sucks!”. There is no abundant life that Jesus promises (John 10:10) and there is NO “inexpressible and glorious joy” that the Bible promises (1 Peter 1:8)
The Christian life is about Christ expressing Himself through you each and every day–you are a “co-laborer” with Christ in this respect.
Another problem with this lie is…
You do NOT know what Jesus would of done anyways!
This lie assumes by looking back you could know what Jesus would do.
But think about it, Jesus was always surprising in his actions… ESPECIALLY to the religious leaders of the day!
How astonished they were when they thought they were being “good” and “religious” and “pious” and pleasing God… and then Jesus turned their self assumptions about righteousness upside down when He introduced His law of Love for God and others.
Heck, even the disciples who lived with Him and followed Him around everywhere didn’t know what He was going to do.
Plus, even if you did somehow know, in each and every situation, exactly what Jesus would do…
Do you think you’re good enough to live like Christ?
What power do you have on your own to act like Him?
If someone was beating you… spitting in your face… ripping out your beard… spilling your blood… ripping your flesh… cursing you and your God… mocking you… ALL while you had the power to end the entire, terrible ordeal in just seconds and wipe them all off the face of the earth.
ALL while you KNEW for a fact that the majority of people living on earth for ages after you wouldn’t even accept your gift of salvation in their human lives…
Do you think you could not retaliate, and instead bless them, telling your father “Don’t hold them accountable — forgive them — because they don’t know what they’re doing”?
Hell NO!
(yeah, get over it, I “cursed” — it’s my blog and I did it for shock value anyways, haha )
The truth is, you and I can do NOTHING apart from Christ (John 15:1-8). It would be the highest form of narcissism to think you could do it, you could live like Christ when the Bible says you can’t.
So what’s the answer?
Instead let Christ live through you. Let Him express Himself through you. How? It’s simple really…
1. Surrender to Him living through you, CHOOSE to let Him do this…
2. Believe by FAITH that He is doing it each day moment by moment…
3. Watch as LOVE is expressed through your life each day, moment by moment, and…
4. If you see yourself getting in the way, your self-absorbed, “fleshly” tendencies blocking this love, recognize it, thank God for showing you… and… start at step 1 again.
So stop thinking in terms of “What would Jesus Do?”… and… if you STILL want to use this silly acronym… if you STILL want to keep all your bracelets, tattoos, bumber stickers, etc… then go ahead and instead think “Watch What Jesus Does!” through you each and every day as you submit to His will by faith.
With Love
Caleb
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