As a follow up to my recent blog titled "Happy Assumptions," where I addressed three things we falsely assume when it comes to reaching a lost world with the Gospel, I want to offer another perspective on the second assumption we discussed. We assume that we as Christ followers have more time to reach people for Christ than we really do. I wrote on this point from the perspective of the brevity of life. We often put off having spiritual conversations with people who are lost until it is too late. Fate or circumstance takes them away before we are ready to share.
Have you ever thought about all the assumptions we make on a daily basis? Like assuming your kids completed their homework? Or assuming that "someone" on the committee made sure the venue for the fund raiser was secured? Or assuming you had the job for as long as you wanted it, only to find out that your company is about to downsize?
We all make "Happy Assumptions," as my good friend calls them. It's as if the less we know about a situation, the happier we are to assume "everything is okay."But there is a certain category of assumptions that may be the most damaging assumptions of all. We assume certain things when it comes to reaching lost people with the Gospel. Here are the top three assumptions some friends and I came up with in this area. Perhaps you can come up with even more.
A friend of mine just showed me a video of him bungee jumping three different times from a seven-story platform in Dallas, Texas. When it comes to heights, I will be the first to volunteer to hold the camera and watch from the ground. I guess the bravest thing I've ever done relating to heights was experiencing a 40-foot-high ropes course in Northwest Arkansas.
For those of you who have never seen or attempted to cross a ropes course, it is basically a challenge of walking across thin beams and swinging bridges that are connected to poles or trees high in the air and your goal is to reach the other end - the finish line, if you will, without falling off. And in most cases, there's nothing to hold onto.
When Jesus saw the tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax booth (Luke 5 ), he didn't see him as a man who was culturally hated by many, but as a man with the potential for great influence. And we see his influence carried out in Luke 5:29 when he "held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them."
In the previous blog we talked about how desperate we are to see life through a new set of lenses - eternal lenses, and how we will be transformed when we understand that each aspect of our life has eternal significance. I believe this includes three things that we need to be willing to change if we are going to experience all of what God has in store for us as we seek to know and to have His heart. We will look at the first one today and the other two in the next two blogs.
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Have you ever thought about all the assumptions we make on a daily basis? Like assuming your kids completed their homework? Or assuming that "someone" on the committee made sure the venue for the fund raiser was secured? Or assuming you had the job for as long as you wanted it, only to find out that your company is about to downsize?
A friend of mine just showed me a video of him bungee jumping three different times from a seven-story platform in Dallas, Texas. When it comes to heights, I will be the first to volunteer to hold the camera and watch from the ground. I guess the bravest thing I've ever done relating to heights was experiencing a 40-foot-high ropes course in Northwest Arkansas.
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