I recently jumped on the bandwagon of Twitter. I was wondering what Twitter was actually contributing to my life when I stumbled upon a convicting tweet by John Piper. It said
"People are less intimidated when you are more like them, but are they more helped? (John 7:46)"
Jesus didn't tone his message down to suit his audience. Jesus spoke the truth and He never apologized for it. John 7:46 says "No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied." I guess I get convicted in how I have approached the Gospel in the past. So often I find myself worried about how people will feel if I tell them the WHOLE truth. Its easy to tell the super nice parts of the Gospel. Like the "Jesus loves you" parts but its not so easy to say that Jesus "loves the sinner but hates the sin", or "take up the cross", "give up everything to be sold out for Jesus". People don't really like to hear that what they are doing is sinful and that they need to change. I can see a lot of compromise in my life and I want to change that. Know the truth, live the truth, and speak the truth.
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