Religious Flow
What would it take to move toward greater eagerness and daily engagement with what God is doing?
Acts 17:11
These [people] were more receptive than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message very eagerly and examined the scriptures every day to see whether these things were so.
Paul and Silas met with the people of Thessalonica for three Sabbath's to share the message of Jesus as Messiah. They entered the religious flow of the synagogue debating scripture. As a result of their three-week effort, some were persuaded into belief.
Yet with the people of Beroea, they encounter something very different. The people were receptive. They eagerly examined the scriptures every day.
I have been in both of these rooms in my life.
The first, the room of religious debate - same time, same place each week. Things are as I expect them to be - within my own tradition, within my own reason: safe, familiar place that I find comfort in.
The second, the place where words meet something more desperate and hungry. I can take in a message of liberation that seemed impossible to believe in before.
I have been in both rooms, but what's more, I have built both rooms within me.
Which room are you in today—and w
Acts 17:11
These [people] were more receptive than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message very eagerly and examined the scriptures every day to see whether these things were so.
Paul and Silas met with the people of Thessalonica for three Sabbath's to share the message of Jesus as Messiah. They entered the religious flow of the synagogue debating scripture. As a result of their three-week effort, some were persuaded into belief.
Yet with the people of Beroea, they encounter something very different. The people were receptive. They eagerly examined the scriptures every day.
I have been in both of these rooms in my life.
The first, the room of religious debate - same time, same place each week. Things are as I expect them to be - within my own tradition, within my own reason: safe, familiar place that I find comfort in.
The second, the place where words meet something more desperate and hungry. I can take in a message of liberation that seemed impossible to believe in before.
I have been in both rooms, but what's more, I have built both rooms within me.
Which room are you in today—and what would it take to move toward greater eagerness and daily engagement with what God is doing?
—Dax Franklin-Hicks