God help vs. self-help Programs
Self help vs. God’s Way
or God-centered vs. self-centered programs? What's the difference?
Self-help promotion programs are
self-reliance. Can we learn anything from the self-help movement? Self-help
assumes that you can indeed do something to help yourself. How has that
worked for you? Isn’t it you that got yourself in a mess? Self-help gives me my
own small, fleeting glory. Self-help offers a temporal good (at
best).
Self-help vs. Christianity
The Christian, awake to the
reality that he has no good apart from his God (Psalm 16:2), speaks repeatedly, “Not to me, O God, not to me, but to
your name give glory” (Psalm 115:1). Christ is his boast. God-help offers us deep,
everlasting joy, secure in his unfading glory. We are changed
forever through His power of the Holy Spirit and revelation.
He takes our shame, fears, and doubts
when we depend on Him for everything. Self-help is a dead end.
