Two Roads, Two Rooms

John Lynch is a pastor at Open Door Fellowship in Phoenix and author of My Worst Day and The Cure. In this allegory, he portrays the battle of Trusting God versus Pleasing God as two roads and two rooms. The rooms that we inevitably encounter are either the "Room of Good Intentions" or the "Room of Grace." If you have 45 minutes the full video is formative and well worth your time.

If you're like me, you have worn a mask in the room of good intentions for a long time. Something John references in his talk was shared with me recently when discussing my own journey: We can gain respect from behind a mask. But no one tells you that when you wear a mask, only the mask gets to receive love.

John has adapted these and many of these points in his book The Cure: What if God isn't who you think he is and neither are you. There he writes about the Room of Grace:

What if there was a place so safe that the worst of me could be known, and I would discover that I would not be loved less, but more In the telling of it? Those in the Room of Grace are in the process of being freed to live beyond preoccupation over their next failure. They're trusting who God says they are, instead of adding up their behaviors to prove their godliness.

You can listen to John discuss the Room of Grace in this clip from the UndoneRedone podcast below.

Soundcloud: John Lynch from UndoneRedone