Tonight at Bible study I felt very aloof. The teacher kept referring to manly pride and how handing problems over to Christ makes them go away. I've never really had a problem with pride in the way he was talking about it and any problem that I've ever handed over was never solved instantly. Part of the reason I'm here is because I thought God would take the problem. Instead, it kept haunting me until I was confronted and had help and support.I don't like when Christianity is offered and presented as a quick fix to life's problems, at least the big ones. There are a few guys here that came to Christianity with those expectations and have since become discouraged and fallen away. The evangelism that originally brought the guys to Christ was true, but overly optimistic, and as a result, they are more hardened now than they were before. How tragic!
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2 Corinthians 4:7-10 (The Message)
"If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That's to prevent anyone from confusing God's incomparable power with us. As it is, there's not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we're not much to look at. We've been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we're not demoralized; we're not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we've been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn't left our side; we've been thrown down, but we haven't broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus' sake, which makes Jesus' life all the more evident in us. While we're going through the worst, you're getting in on the best! "
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