Your posts touch on one very important problem with UBF: UBF is a very LEGALISTIC. They love to turn Jesus into Moses. So Jesus got up early in the morning to pray. UBF says, OK, now everybody must wake up at 6am in the morning for "daily bread". And if you don't attend you are 'unspiritual', or rebuked for being 'easy going'. Everything Jesus does becomes a legalistic rule in UBF. This is very deceptive to new people like "SM/Christian Man" because (as Paul said) it has the appearance of rightouessness but in the end has no power to restrain the sinful nature. Not only that but it makes people self-rightouess and spiritually blind. This is one reason(among many)that many UBF leaders have become corrupt.
Shane
>I'd imagine many a UBFer is familiar with Mark 1:35,
>used along with various OT quotes to justify fanatical
>devotion to "early morning prayer." The verse reads:
>"Very early in the morning, while it was still dark,
>Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a
>solitary place, where he prayed." (NIV) I have often
>heard this used as a year "key verse."
>
>This verse says nothing more than it says - on this
>particular morning Jesus got up very early and prayed.
> Even if Jesus had a habit of getting up early to pray
>(I'm not sure if he did) - he never said he intended
>that to be a model for others.
>
>-- Anonymous ex-UBFer
