Is it ever WRONG to be RIGHT?

To be right and know it is one thing.

To be right and be argumentative to prove you are right is something else.

Most religious people are diseased with the disease of religious phobia (the fear of being wrong). This means they are also diseased with the disease of religious elitism (the arrogance of thinking they are right even when they are wrong). This results in the injury and pain of fighting the fight to be right. Fighting the fight to be right is a manifestation of the diseases of self-righteousness, religious pride, and egotistical egotism. The pain and injury of fighting the fight to be right comes from strained and broken relationships, the ending of friendships and the misunderstanding of intentions.

Most religious people believe that arguing a doctrine to the point of demeaning the other person is valid if what they believe to be right is right. Winning an argument to the detriment of distancing people from the love of Christ is of no value to Christ or His kingdom and what is thought to be an argument for Christ is in actual fact, is am argument against Christ. All you win in winning an argument is wining an argument. So what! It may make your egotistic self-righteous head swell but the damage to you from the swelling is a stench that drives people away from God.

I am not discounting the necessity of believing the right thing and behaving the right way, but to alienate people from the Gospel in proving your supposed rightness is practicing wrongness. What I am disputing of is the religious right to be right in believing that they are right and we will fight for the right to be right. How much self righteousness, pride and broken relationships result in fighting for the right to be right. How much humility, acceptance and good relationships can be built when we honestly accept that we are wrong...or that our rightness may not completely right.

What if in an argumentative argumentation or in the argument itself, we stopped for a moment and questioned our own position? Is it possible to persist in an argument once we stop to see the argument from the other person's viewpoint? Don’t arguments fade away once we take a part of the blame for the argument? So what if we really are right? From their point of view they are right too, if not there would be no argument to argue over. When we admit the possibility that we could be wrong there is no ground for argument and the argument sinks from our focus. stop to say, “I’m wrong!” or at least, “I could be wrong!” 

When I think of how often I’ve stirred the argument pot of poison because I believed the other person was wrong and it was my right to fight the fight to be right and now realize that the right I fought for was wrong, I realize that I was not a positive influence for the gospel. But what if you stopped and looked at it from their perspective? What if you gave the other person the benefit of the doubt? If we listened to really listen to understand the ground for argument would disappear

Forget about religious arguments, denominational arguments, doctrinal arguments and think for a moment how much more we would learn and understand about spiritual living if we would not pursue the right to be right all the time. To know our ignorance rather than knowing what we know (or think we know) is far more productive to the community of humanity in declaring God's grace and love in sharing the goodness of God. 

Too many religious people take refuge in being right and shut of the avenue for spiritual enlightenment closing down the heart and mind of others by playing the blame and shame game because they have opened up to them. 

This obsession with “being right” has made people who were to be a positive influence in the community of humanity for Christ to be exactly the opposite of God's purpose for them. God's purpose is suppose to launch believers into freedom of living the Christ life and they’ve used it to lock themselves in the prison of religious bondage. 

Give up our Right to be Right.

The right to be right does not give us the license to abuse that right. Realize that as a believer we also have the right to be wrong. Maintaining our are right when we could be wrong will cause a great deal of stress on establishing and maintaining people relationships. To jump headlong into a fight to prove we are right is be the wrong thing to do.

We have a choice to be right or be kind. If our right to be right causes us to be unkind, it is time give up our right to be right.

Is our ego so big that we cannot give up our right to be right!

Freedom in Christ entails the Right to be WRONG...NOT the Right to do WRONG by FIGHTING the FIGHT to be RIGHT!

God, deliver us from the right to be right for in our rightness we are oft times wrong