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“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” (2 Timothy 4:2-5 ESV) |
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I just finished working through the text in Colossians 2 that I will be teaching this coming weekend. All I could think was, “Oh boy, will this ruffle some feathers!” It’s a difficult thing to love people enough to speak truth to them when you know it will really hurt their feelings. Yet that is what we are called to do. It’s one way we each fulfill our ministry. So when you think of it this week, please pray for me. I am poised to really tick off a bunch of people whom I love – people influenced by a culture of fear that sees Jesus as less than enough. I need courage to lovingly step on those toes. Thanks. |