Ever play a board game and try to play without reading the rules? You figure you can figure it out as you go. And then you get to a situation that you don’t know what to do. Err one has a different idea, people start getting mad, people quite the game, call others names, cheaters. Why the confusion and frustration – people don’t know the rules. If they knew how the game worked then there would be a lot less confusion and frustration and name-calling and quitting.
The same goes for the kingdom of heaven. We need to know the rules. We need to know how it works. If we don’t there will be all this frustration and name calling and quitting that we see in a lot of churches and among a lot of Christians.