BODY OF CHRIST DIAGNOSED WITH SDA

We surely live in a time of abbreviations. We have CEOs attending AA meetings? The government is chastised for lack of attention to FICA and mismanagement of FEMA. FYI, OSHA drives the COO batty while the CIA investigates the DOA at General Hospital. It's no wonder Old McDonald sang E-I-E-I-O while feeding the horse.

Therefore, I've concluded it appropriate to discuss the SDA which ails the church. Selective Doctrinal Anxiety divides and ultimately conquers the cells of Christ. SDA depletes the immune system causing the church to retreat for treatment three times a week while rendering it unfit and unable to have necessary stamina to breathe life into a depressed society.

SDA is a disease which scans the Bible and chooses which doctrines to be major battle lines. Oddly, some of God's apparent desires are tossed into the "well-that-can't-be-helped" bin.

• Worry.....SDA no longer acknowledges this as doctrine, but simply a way of life accepted by those who are concerned over presumed larger doctrines. However, this is a major cause of heart disease.
• Avoidance.....SDA has shelved the call from scripture to go to the brother with whom one has trouble. Preacher's luncheons and brotherhood gossip sheets are highly contaminated with Avoidance which drains the body of important energy.
• Reductionism....SDA refuses to believe Jesus actually equalled murder with anger, adultery with lust, and favoritism with unrighteousness.

The good news is there is hope for SDA victims. Every congregation can find complete healing from this aggressive disease by administering RATTED (Reverse Application Treatment To Encourage Development). Romans 2:1-3 is God's holy prescription for complete cure. Therefore you are without excuse, every man of you who passes judgment, for in that you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. And do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment upon those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Selective Doctrinal Anxiety is removed from the bloodstream of Christ when each member of the body realizes his or her own severe and major flaws. Subsequently we find no reason to warn others of anyone before we warn them of ourselves first. Healing should be rampant when SDA finds itself effectively RATTED.