Once again am appreciated you for spending your to put this togather, God will keep on renewed your strengh.

Your Faithfully
Okon E.M
Thanks

But then he says that when he gets it back, he will tell rebels about God’s ways. This is counter-intuitive to the thinking of some national Christian leaders (and their followers): that we cannot reach people for Christ unless we present this image of goodness and have-it-together-ness. But my experience has been that as I am honest about my failures and weaknesses, undiscipled people respond to that.

Earlier David says that God desires “honesty from the womb” (New Living Translation renders it “honesty from the heart”).

I wonder if we think we have to be “good” in front of others because we fear what others think of the hyprocrisy of televangelists. I think what other people want from us is not fake piety but honesty about our own sins. I wonder if we would find more people hungry for a God who can handle honest, flawed people if we were up front about ourselves and less judgmental of others.

When Jeff came to “Don’t steal” with most of us sitting there thinking, “I haven’t stolen… much,” I wondered how many of us participate in illegal downloading and sharing of music. Sometimes it can be a gray area, but let’s face it, most of the time we say “it’s a gray area” we are simply justifying stealing.