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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

The Religion of “No”


Psychologists talk about regret in two waysregrets of action and regrets of inaction. In church, you may have heard this called sins of commission and sins of omission. I am concerned believers have focused on the sins of commission for so long we have become defensive. To those outside the church, we seem negative and passive.

Sadly, by playing it safe, we do not follow God’s calling on our lives. Still worse, God is deprived of the glory He deserves.

Recently Barna Group reported half (51%) of churchgoers do not know what the Great Commission is. Jesus spelled it out in Matthew 28:19-20, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” For the 51%, I think of this as the sin of no mission.

Recently I asked Alexa (Amazon’s voice-activated system on an Amazon Echo smart speaker), how many people are there in the world? She answered 7.4 billion. That is a lot of mission. All of us need to be involved to reach over 7 billion for Christ. There are plenty of positive proactive things to be done. Christians need to be recognized as people of action and answers.

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