Wonder what’s the deal with Laymanator and Layman’s Liberation? Think “Layman aider.” We’re here to help the silent spiritual majority—which almost surely includes you—experience amazing things. And how are we going to pull off such a neat trick? The first step is to get you over The Great Religious Divide.
To understand why this–getting over the Great Religious Divide—is such a big deal, take a look at the military for a sec. In all branches of the armed forces, at least in the USA, there is a Great Divide known as the “commission.”
On one side of the Divide are the non-commissioned majority; enlisted folks who will never, ever in a million years rise beyond a certain rank, usually some form of sergeant. Upon these men and women an official ceiling has been placed to limit their authority, their pay grade, even their prestige: Officially, even if they do all the right things and schmooze all the right people, they can go only so far and absolutely no farther. Unofficially, they’re disposable. Sorry, Gomer.
On the other side of the Divide are the commissioned officers, those whose minimum rank is higher than even the highest rank of the non-commissioned. While a commissioned officer may face many obstacles, the one obstacle that has been removed is the ceiling; theoretically, there is no limit to how high a commissioned officer can rise.
Indeed, a few men—most notably Grant and Eisenhower—have parlayed military rank and achievement into the presidency of the USA. Had these men started out and remained on the wrong side of the Divide, you and I wouldn’t recognize their names today. The turning point of their lives was not a brilliant plan of attack nor a “ballsy” battlefield act but the insultingly simple decision to get themselves on the sunny side of the Great Divide!
In the “Christian Army” the Great Divide is unwritten and unofficial yet almost as real: Those in the paid ministry—the commissioned officers—perceive no ceiling, while those who work secular jobs almost always do. The latter passively assume a limit to their spiritual ambitions; they can be only so effective, only so knowledgeable, only so significant, only so close to God!
News flash: The Great Divide is a total illusion! It’s a mistake. It’s a mixup at HQ. It’s hogwash and b.s. (been Sanghai’d). The Religious Great Divide is nonsense, frankincense and myrrh.*
God has placed no official ceiling over your head or mine, even though we may be laymen and laywomen. According to the Bible, even the least of us is supposed to have great knowledge and great power. We’re all supposed to be living large. So why aren’t we? Because we’ve bought the Divide lie, and years of swallowing that lie have bludgeoned us into a spiritual stupor. We’ve been conditioned to read great promises and tell ourselves, “Yeah, right. Not in this lifetime, pal.” In a word, we’ve become copers rather than conquerors. Yuck!
If you want to do great things for God—correction, if you want to do really cool and fun things for a great God—the first step is to stop believing the Great Divide lie. The next few thousand steps after that are what the Laymanator is all about. We’re here to guide you, cheer for you and interact with you along your way to new heights of personal passion, power, creativity and success. Stay tuned!
*Some SSM’ers—not you, of course—will read this and go nuts: “Hey, frankincense and myrrh is what they gave Jesus! This guy hates frankincense and myrrh, so he must hate Jesus. Let’s get ‘im, pastor!” All I can say is forgive them, for they know not what they do!
