RRR_discipling_recount_negatives

 

 

 Recount. 
 Those moments. Recount those spectacular moments, those impactful moments that aren't necessarily pleasant. 

Let's stop think about the fact that sometimes we don't want to consider that the best thing that can happen for us isn't positive in nature, but negative, or at least seems negative. 

Actually, many times what seems negative turns out to be positive, so we count not necessarily pleasantries. But bear in mind, things that may not seem to be so pleasant. We live in a culture in 2025, especially in America that has something in it called the cancel culture, and this is absolutely deadly to faith and people of faith don't realise how deadly this is. This is; here's the theory; If you don't like something cancel it out eradicate it, take it out. Why(?) because it's not pleasant, it's not good, it's not positive. Well, here's a hint from the Bible. Not everything is. 

God is love. Love, isn't always fun. Love can sometimes be very, very hard when you've got to stand there and hold the hand of someone that you really care about who's passing over. You don't take that easily, you know, they're going to heaven, but that doesn't mean that it's easy to hold their hand while they go there.

Recount, those times. Recount, with empathy recount. Understanding and recounting will bring wisdom. The Bible talks about the deliverance of wisdom as coming from those times when we are disciplined. Hebrew says that those whom God loves He disciplines, because if a parent loves the child but doesn't discipline that child that child becomes a spoiled child and we all know this. 

But in a cancel culture, that's become something that folks don't want to admit is really the way that life ought to be lived. And as a result, it is deadly to faith, and when it comes to recounting, if all that you are capable of recounting is success on top of success and joy, on top of joy and positive on top of positive and constantly demanding that miracles in spectacular things are the only things that comprise your faith, my friend, Your faith is not solid.

It is lopsided. It is all leaned over to the positive. If everyone on the ship got on the right side of the ship, it would list, and that's what happened. That's what's happening in Christianity. And especially with discipling others, is that we are listing to a side, that doesn't allow for whole people, whole people have things about them that aren't pleasant? Things about them that aren't nice things. Things that aren't wonderful. 

I'm here to tell you that we live in a world as sinners, where sin makes us ugly and ugly is sometimes part of what you need to recount, because that's what your faith stands against and when you stand against something, let me tell you that it is every bit as powerful; if not more powerful; than standing for something. 

What did Jesus preach more of? Standing against evil? Or standing for sincerity and truth?

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