Why is it that we always want to make the easy difficult?

This morning I was reading this. Last night I was reading this. I was reminded that the ease of becoming a Christian has been made remarkably difficult by the American church.

Shame on us for turning the free gift of God into an institutionalized morass that condemns people to hell. Shame on us for turning the very ones who need salvation away by our pretentious religiosity. Shame on us for refusing to believe the Word and its promise. Shame on us for generating volumes of word, written and spoken, but refusing to take action.

As Gomer Pyle would say, “shame, shame, shame!”