Heretic

In the book Tribes that I just finished reading the author had an interesting definition for "heretic". I have always thought of this term in an extremely negative connotation. But the way he described one...it might just describe me!

Here is what he had to say,
"Religion and faith are often confused. Someone who opposes faith is called an atheist and widely reviled. But we don' t have a common word for someone who opposes a particular religion.
Heretic will have to do.
If faith is the foundation of a believe system, then religion is the facade and the landscaping. It's easy to get caught up in the foibles of a corporate culture and the systems that have been built over time, but have nothing at all to do with the faith that built the system in the first place."

Father forgive us for the times we get caught up in the facade and landscaping. Forgive us for the times that we let the system out weigh the relationship. Help us to focus on the foundation of our faith: Jesus Christ. Help us to clearly see the religiosity that keeps us from expressing and living by the Spirit. Help us to be heretics to religion and faithful in our commitment to knowing you.