Un-righteous fear

Today in the men's group we discussed chapter 2 of Bulletproof.  We started out talking about how it seems that once or twice in each generation there is some event that everyone remembers so well that they can always tell you where they were when it happened.  For instance -

• September 11, 2001
• Explosion of Space Shuttle challenger in 1986
• Assasination of JFK
• Bombing of Pearl Harbor
• etc...

Things like this make such an impression on us that we never forget.  But there are far more things - daily tragedies that the media spin to get ratings.  From Holton's book...

• Economic downturn
• dust mites
• carbon monoxide
• SUV rollovers
• environmental disasters
• acid-reflux
• losing your job
• flesh-eating bacteria
• radon
• dying young
• living too long
• no retirement savings
• financial ruin
• cancer
• hair loss
• health
• your figure
• you worry for your children
• terrorism
• weapons of mass destruction
• mad cow disease
• stock market plunges
• impotence

Holton's Summary: We are living in a society being eaten alive by anxety.

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Holton's fix: Fear nothing but God!

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28; ESV)

Next week - Chapter 3 will, I think, demonstrate that un-righteous fear is the same thing as idolatry!  Stay tuned!