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EXTRA CURRICULAR

by paul hoffmaster
04/22/18
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I am amazed at the number of Christians involved in extra curricular activities.  One of those areas of interest is politics.  In a number of social outlets, the platform of negative reporting is spear headed by Believers.  If they dislike a politician, they illustrate their contempt with negativity.  If they endorse a political party, they will sound the trumpet of praise and adoration.  If it’s a political ideology they disagree with, they will express it with carbon monoxide rhetoric.  I am not interested in whether someone is Republican, Democrat, or whatever.   What concerns me is that the harvest fields are ripe for harvesting, but the harvesters seem more concerned with issues unrelated to reaping. (John 4: 35)  The last thing I want to do is to turn off a potential Believer by expressing a political viewpoint that might add to the further polarization of our society.  The majority of our political understanding is determined by what we read or hear from the media.  Can we honestly promote something as truth, when all we know is from biased reporting?

Our Country is in a mess, but I am at rest because God is in control.  This is a time for Christians to stay the course.  This is the time to stay focused.  This is the time to pray for those in authority. (I Timothy 2:1, 2)  This is the time to make sure our priorities stay in line with God’s Word.  

 I don’t believe there is a Biblical subject that has not been written or verbalized about.  The redundancy of theme writing and publications has inundated the social platforms.  Faith shared articles and quips have continued to be popular with the faithful.  My concern is that those outside of the Faith have little or no understanding of what our jubilation is all about.   While the Christians encourage each other with the Word, the unbelievers remain in the dark searching for the allusive answer to what life is all about.   It is time for Believers to leave their spiritual “Disneyland” and share their lives with those that are living day by day.  It is exciting to feel the spiritual goose bumps in our closed communal gatherings, but the real excitement is releasing the “rivers of living water” to those in our communities that are looking for something to quench their thirst from the heat of sin.

The Life Book is what Believers need to tweet about.  We need to share what God is doing in our lives, and what our lives are doing in serving God!