One of the quotes I have pinned to my bulletin board caught my eye yesterday. It is a quote from a jazz legend named Charles Mingus. Here is what he said, “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
Reading this quote has had me thinking off and on since. I have had this question rolling around in my head since yesterday, “Have I made the simple message of the Gospel complicated?”
I think one of the downfalls of the church is the sad truth that we have taken a simple message of love and forgiveness and made it immensely complicated. Instead of focusing on a relationship, we have made it about religion. Instead of concentrating on freedom, we have made it about rules.
God loves you and wants to have a relationship with you – that’s it in a nutshell.
It really is that simple! Have you made it more complicated?
Clay in the Hands 
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