How to avoid Jesus in 7 easy steps

I’m working through Tullian Tchividjan’s (cha-vi-jin) great book Jesus+Nothing=Everything, winner of Christianity Today’s award for best book in the category of Christian living for 2011.

At one point he includes an illustration put together by a friend on how easy it is to avoid Jesus by becoming a legalist:

1) Makes rules outside the Bible

2) Push yourself to try and keep your rules

3) Castigate yourself when you don’t keep your rules

4) Become proud when you do keep your rules

5) Appoint yourself judge over other people

6) Get angry with people who break your rules or have different rules

7) ‘Beat’ the losers.