The "sin" of rebellion
I've been thinking a lot recently about how I was raised to believe that rebellion in and of itself is a sin. It was a very consistent theme throughout my childhood. This idea that questioning authority, let alone going against it was a terrible mistake that would lead you further from God. Further from heaven. My mother insisted that if we were to be godly then we as children needed to learn to have unquestionable obedience to God and to the authority figures in our life. She hated when we would ask "why" or when we would struggle to transition from one task to the next as quickly as she expected. To hesitate was to disobey. Obedience was such a big theme even in the media that I was allowed to consume as a child. It was in the shows that I watched. The books I read. It all created this idea that we need to be perfect obedient soldiers in the army of the Lord. That if we were going to truly live out the great commission then we only needed to be cogs in a missio...