Crowding Out The Witnesses

The (unbelievable) goal

I want to be a triathlete

I remember the first time I saw the final at Kona.

I was sick at home, and watched these athletes swim and run and bike for hours and hour on end.

I was impressed at their skill and just that they could make it through such a daunting task.

Back then, I knew I’d like to try it.

But, y’know how that goes.

Crowding Out Witnesses

Job

The Message Chapter 42

After GOD had finished addressing Job, he turned to Eliphaz the Temanite and said, “I’ve had it with you and your two friends. I’m fed up! You haven’t been honest either with me or about me—not the way my friend Job has. So here’s what you must do. Take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my friend Job. Sacrifice a burnt offering on your own behalf. My friend Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer. He will ask me not to treat you as you deserve for talking nonsense about me, and for not being honest with me, as he has.”

9  They did it. Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did what GOD commanded. And GOD accepted Job’s prayer.

Mark

The worst cheerleader

When the church crowds out its witnesses