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By Don Meyer<\/p>\n

KNOXVILLE, TN (July 16, 2009) \u2013 They were huddled in small groups all over the main Thompson-Boling Arena floor, crying and praying together as a few hundred students attending CHIC2009 accepted Christ or recommitted their lives following a powerful message and an invitation from speaker Judy Peterson.
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\nPeterson, who serves as campus pastor at North Park University, wasted no time in drilling down to a core problem confronting not only teens today, but adults as well \u2013 living lives of pretense out of a fear of rejection.<\/p>\n

In an intensely personal message punctuated with experiences from her own life, Peterson drew on the biblical story of David and his indiscretion with Bathsheba, pointing out not only David\u2019s failures, but sharing David\u2019s wisdom in Psalm 32 as he points the way to God\u2019s redemptive love and grace.<\/p>\n

\"Judy\"In a style familiar to those who have heard Peterson preach before, she quickly drew her audience in through sharing her own foibles \u2013 especially the many insecurities she proceeded to describe. She explained how each day she cleans the house, changes the bedding, scrubs the bathroom \u2013 and even makes her workout clothes look like they are regularly used. She shared her fear of dying before returning home and wanting anyone entering her house to think she is neat, orderly and disciplined \u2013 something she quickly made clear is not the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople often pretend \u2013 they are living a lie,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cThey try to make it look like they have it all together, when in truth their lives are messy.\u201d Recalling incidents from her childhood through teenage and college years, Peterson confessed, \u201cNow I\u2019m 39 years of age and still afraid that people will find out I don\u2019t have it all together.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019re all the same \u2013 we don\u2019t want to be teased or judged, she explained. \u201cSo, we\u2019re never honest \u2013 we just allow glimpses of what we\u2019re really like. We live a lie a lot of the time \u2013 or a half-truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have one, big, basic fear: if we are found out, we will be rejected,\u201d she suggested. \u201cNo Facebook friends, no Twitter friends. We\u2019ll be alone, rejected. And we can\u2019t handle that. Pretending protects us. It\u2019s risky to put it all out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judy describes herself as super insecure \u2013 she even paints her own toenails before going for a pedicure because she doesn\u2019t want people to see her feet as ugly. She says she doesn\u2019t want to feel exposed or feel vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all like this,\u201d Peterson told the crowd. \u201cWe\u2019re afraid for someone to care for us. We hide because we think we will get more love. So, we have pretend relationships. The only way to take a risk is being convinced that we are loved and they won\u2019t leave us.\u201d<\/p>\n

She contrasted how we treat others suffering from messy lives with the way we think of ourselves in relationship to God. \u201cFor people (others) whose messiness is obvious, it is easier to reach out and say that God loves you just as you are. But, for those whose messiness is not so obvious (our own), it\u2019s different. We have a hard time receiving God\u2019s love. We think if we can be perfect, God will love us. We think we have to earn it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peterson suggests that those who have learned to pretend are more at risk of missing the love of Jesus. \u201cPretending is not just a problem found in the world \u2013 it is a big problem among Christians too,\u201d she explained. \u201cPretending is much quicker and easier than being honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Cross\"She recounted the story of King David where he becomes involved with the wife of another man. \u201cDavid is powerful \u2013 he is the king. He sees Bathsheba and invites her over to his rooftop. He thinks it is no big deal \u2013 until she tells him she is pregnant. David figures he can fix this problem by having her husband, Uriah, come back from battle to be with her \u2013 and that the husband would think the baby is really his. But, the husband refuses. So David decides another sin will cover up the first one. He arranges for the husband to be killed in battle. Then after an appropriate time of mourning, he marries Bathsheba so that people will think the baby came as a result of that marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as David shares in Psalm 32, it didn\u2019t matter that no one else may have known what he did, she observed. He knew \u2013 and the guilt was overwhelming. \u201cThere are consequences to sin \u2013 pretending is painful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peterson suggested the reason many Christians do not spend much time doing kingdom work is because \u201cthey\u2019re too busy managing all of their own junk. We waste half our energy keeping our stuff hidden all the time. That is one of Satan\u2019s greatest deceptions \u2013 people so afraid of being found out that they only live into half of their potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, David\u2019s account offers hope, sharing what can happen when one comes clean before God and acknowledges sin. \u201cHow blessed in the one whose sin is forgiven\u2026\u201d she says in reciting scripture.<\/p>\n

David uses three words \u2013 transgression, sin, and iniquity \u2013 in the Psalm passage, she points out:<\/p>\n

Transgression \u2013 she defines this as crossing boundaries that God has set. \u201cBlatant disobedience \u2013 like going further sexually than you should have, or cheating and lying. You knew what you were doing \u2013 but you didn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sin \u2013 when one doesn\u2019t live up to the standards God has set \u2013 \u201clike when we walk past the person who was hurting and we did nothing to help, or being silent when we should have spoken up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Iniquity \u2013 those things that influence our lives so that we do not develop in healthy ways, growing up twisted instead \u2013 \u201clike child abuse, or feeling betrayed, or being pressured to be a perfectionist.\u201d Things may not have been our fault, but they shaped us in ways that are not always healthy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Praise\"\u201cWe need to own this stuff,\u201d she said in challenging the students to be open and confess it to God. \u201cThe Psalm invites us to be honest about these things. We have to stop pretending we have no garbage. We have to acknowledge our trangressions, our sins, our iniquities. David owns his own stuff \u2013 he doesn\u2019t try to blame someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

A healthy response, she suggests, begins with not hiding our own sin and confessing it openly. \u201cThe guilt of our transgressions is removed, the sin is covered and is remembered no more,\u201d she says in quoting the passage. \u201cLike David, we still live with the consequences, but forgiveness is there. God\u2019s graciousness can get rid of it all. No sin is so big that it is outside of God\u2019s ability to forgive it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peterson then proceeded to do something she says she has never done before \u2013 something she felt convicted to do as a way of dramatically illustrating the problem of pretense and hiding behind false fronts.<\/p>\n

She first shared her insecurity when she was first married \u2013 she didn\u2019t want her husband to see her without her makeup for fear he might not love her as much. She likened that to lives that seek to mask what is underneath. She then poured water onto a towel and proceeded to scrub off the makeup she had worn to the service, much to the delight of the students.<\/p>\n

But, the arena quickly grew quiet again as she held up the soiled cloth for all to see – cameras zoomed in and portrayed it on the giant arena screens. \u201cThis is what we hide behind,\u201d she said in drawing an analogy to our everyday lives. \u201cIt isn\u2019t beautiful at all. The only hope we have is to stop pretending \u2013 to strip away the stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

She spent a few moments describing the character and nature of God who as our loving father \u2013 our \u201cabba,\u201d or as she defines it, \u201cdaddy\u201d \u2013 noting that God is loving, not angry, and one who considers his children as beloved.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing will ever separate you from the one who calls you beloved,\u201d she said in offering an opportunity for those touched by the message to come forward to accept Christ or recommit their lives to Christ. Students and counselors streamed down the arena\u2019s many aisles to join Peterson in the center of the main floor beneath a large wooden cross where Peterson shared a closing prayer.<\/p>\n

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