Exodus 3:1-10; 4:10-17
Think about the ideas that we buy into; not just believe but actually live by:
“Retail therapy”
“If it feels good, it can’t be wrong.”
“Prove them wrong with your success”
“Work smarter, not harder as an excuse to never work hard.”
Victim mindsets and blame shifting. There’s something attractive about these things. They are ways of maximizing pleasure and comfort and minimizing pain and discomfort. While these ideas don’t seem harmful at first… They slowly make Christians ineffective and eventually useless for God’s kingdom.
The late philosopher Dallas Willard once observed, “The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.” The quote is saying that, a lot of people call themselves Christians, but a lot of those people do not follow Jesus and live by his way. If they did, the impact on the world and its issues would be revolutionary. Heaven on earth.
So today, we are going to explore what’s making so many Christians ineffective for God’s mission and his kingdom.
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